Society wants to incentivise creativity and private enterprise.
Copyrights patents and trademarks have emerged as a protection of what we today call intellectual property.
There are plenty of examples when these serve a useful purpose, however excessive extensions to the expiration of copyright as well as harmful patent trolls show the negative side of this arrangement.
Open source software and hardware has emerged as a powerful alternative that is compatible with profit making but also with building a Commons benefiting everybody inclusively.
Recently I was able to observe a team member exerting real violence on software tools that he was using for completely unintended purposes. Why?...
In the 21st century, all regulations and all governance should either be or aim to be digital, as soon as possible. What does that...
After corporations and our democracies, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) promise to scale even further our ability to organize. The goal is to achieve our...
