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RE: The tragedy of the commons

• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 09:49:00 -0500

If you can get a copy of it:

"Public Assets, Private Profits:  Reclaiming the 
American Commons in an Age of Market Enclosure"; 
David Bollier, New American Foundation, Washington DC.

Can't agree with all of it but it is stimulating 
reading.  It is hard to figure out if the WWW 
is a commons or an enclosure of the Internet.

Did a commons exist before Bolt Beranek and 
Newman invented the Internet?  Perhaps the rush 
to put all information on it to meet the crazy 
statements that any idea without a URL no longer 
existed was the greatest [expletive deleted] response of all 
time.  Is it possible that the ground is common 
but the grass is private?   Who reseeds the commons?

Len 
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h

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