https://develop.consumerium.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=142.177.85.73&feedformat=atomConsumerium development wiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T18:56:22ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.39.6https://develop.consumerium.org/w/index.php?title=Healthy_signal_infrastructure&diff=3071Healthy signal infrastructure2004-02-26T03:55:38Z<p>142.177.85.73: </p>
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<div>'''Healthy signal infrastructure''' is for all [[Green purposes]] not just [[healthy buying infrastructure|buying]]. The more we can do to promote [[hardware standard]]s that decrease the [[hardware requirements]] we must ourselves deploy to support [[Consumerium Services]], and [[modular hardware]] to cut [[e-waste]], the easier it will be to cooperate with other [[essential projects]].<br />
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Non-buying purposes the '''HSI''' can be used for: [[voting]], [[dating]], [[rendezvous]] like a [[flash mob]], [[orienteering game]]s, [[betting]] and [[investing]] (only healthy to a limited degree, and there is no way to tell betting from investing, period), and almost any kind of [[mobile work]] like [[sales]] or [[transport]] or [[sustainable forestry]]. Of course, any kind of forestry or fishing or investing or sales or transport that is not sustainable is not healthy, so, a truly healthy infrastructure just doesn't help anyone do these things, or, better yet, it charges more to use it if you are using more or damaging more [[styles of capital]] than [[sustainable use]]rs would require. <br />
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In the ideal case, the [[Consumerium Services]] and even the [[hardware requirements]] would be delivered for free to all users anywhere in the world, and this would be paid for by charging other users of the same infrastructure for their other uses - charging ''more'' for those doing more damage to Earth. This is one option for how to set up the [[Consumerium License]].<br />
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Probable features of the HSI:<br />
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*[[ISO 14000]] compliant<br />
*'''self-funding'''<br />
**no relying on [[volunteer]] effort (big burnout risk, see [[worst cases]])<br />
**no relying on [[donation]]s (big corruption risk, see [[worst cases]])<br />
*incremental<br />
**relies on existing [[pager]] and [[phone]] and [[radio]] wherever possible<br />
**[[modular hardware]] based on relevant [[hardware standard]]<br />
*sustainable<br />
**low or no [[e-waste]], no [[toxic waste]] at all<br />
**[[product take-back]] by manufacturers<br />
*accountable<br />
**[[full cost accounting]] for whole [[product lifecycle]] using [[ISO 19011]]<br />
**leads to [[Transparent Consumerium]]<br />
*maintainable<br />
**upgraded fairly uniformly in "turns" on regular basis (like every four years) etc.<br />
**leads to [[Distributed Consumerium]] that can be run by [[developing nation]]s<br />
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== references ==<br />
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*[http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_8/critical/ A social ecology of wireless communication] including a great [[worn device]], a super-cheap ecologically sane [[cell phone]]. We don't know if it runs [[Python]] yet, but we can ask.</div>142.177.85.73https://develop.consumerium.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Free_software&diff=14533Talk:Free software2004-02-26T03:15:28Z<p>142.177.85.73: </p>
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<div>Not sure [[Free documentation]] is an exact parallel, but, it should probably be mentioned.</div>142.177.85.73https://develop.consumerium.org/w/index.php?title=Copyleft&diff=14156Copyleft2004-02-26T03:10:42Z<p>142.177.85.73: almost always associated with the free software movement, though sometimes "nature's copyleft" in natural genomes gets discussed in meetings</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[free software]]</div>142.177.85.73https://develop.consumerium.org/w/index.php?title=Free_software&diff=13764Free software2004-02-26T03:09:54Z<p>142.177.85.73: much enhanced, links to relevant articles; introducing what it IS before getting into pros and cons, more work invited</p>
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<div>'''Free software''' refers to a "freedom to share and modify software" as advocated by the [[Free Software Foundation]]. Freedom of use is of course only available to those who have the hardware and expertise to use the software, whose needs are addressed by the software. Freedom to modify is of course only available to those who have the skills, education and time to learn sometimes very complex and involved code, often in low level languages such as C. <br />
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The [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] may decide that some other balance of freedoms is appropriate to maximize delivery of [[Consumerium Services]], so it is, as stated in the [[Consumerium:FAQ]], not a feature of Consumerium that it rely entirely on free software.<br />
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There are also [[problems with free software and open source models]] that relate to the [[license]]s they use, such as [[no discrimination against fields of endeavour]] (which [[Green Patent License]] seeks to address) and the [[viral license]] or [[share-alike]] issue, which some also consider onerous (thus, [[open source]] omits it). There are issues of enforcement that are perhaps better addressed via a [[consortium license]].<br />
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From [[Consumerium]]'s perspective, '''free software''' is only good if it spreads a [[moral purchasing]] ideal. Just "demand software for free" isn't good enough (nor is it an accurate portrayal of the meaning of software freedom, which the free software movement champions).<br />
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Free software is not a movement to discourage anyone from distributing software for a fee. Richard Stallman, the founder of the free software movement, distributed the free software he wrote for a fee for quite some time and was able to live based on what he made. ''This claim is contested as the FSF got many donations during that period.'' It is difficult sometimes to separate the FSF and Stallman personally from the movement that he defined and founded. The word '''copyleft''' which refers to a [[copyright]] that is licensed widely and used to prevent other copyrights from interfering with the "Freedoms", was coined by Don Hopkins, however, and should not be assumed to mean strictly the Stallman model.<br />
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The Free Software Foundation encourages people to distribute free software for the highest price the market will bear so that one makes money one can use in the development of more free software (they notably do not favour spending the money on hardware or research on the actual software needs of the poor - making them a quite unusual charity in this respect). That one can get free software at no fee is a side-effect of the ability to share the software.<br />
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In time, businesses were built on free software (such as Cygnus and Red Hat) and do quite well both in terms of their own ability to stay in business and their contributions to the free software movement. This movement has been small but self-sustaining, if one does not count massive inputs of volunteer and donor effort.</div>142.177.85.73