Capital and Enclosure in Software Commons: Linux and Ethereum

<p>Entities that extract profits from software commons like Linux and Ethereum have the greatest incentive and capacity to co-opt them.</p> <p><strong>1. Common and commons</strong></p> <p>As Giuliani & Vercellone argue, <em>common</em> is a mode of resource production in the same way capital is. These modes have <em>internal logic[s]</em> (Wright, 2020) which animate productive entities (e.g., commons, companies). The allocation of benefits produced by the entity determines which mode it aligns with…</p>

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Ethereum Foundation

Part of: Summer of Protocols

ISBN: 9781962872973

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