castells.jpgFórum II - Outro discurso interessante (especialmentepara a minha tese) foi o do Castells. Ele relacionou o open-source com o que ele chama de "cultura hacker" e com as tecnologias de cooperação.

Open source is a way of organizing production, challenging traditional forms of division of labor, organizational hierarchy, and conventional property rights. A number of analyses propose the possibility of extending this form of organization to many other areas beyond software, on the basis of the principles that characterize the open source process: User-driven innovation that takes place in a parallel distributed setting Cooperative behavior regulated by cultural norms and governance rules The economic logic of non excludable, anti-rival goods, and network externalities and synergies. A redefinition of the notion of property rights. Property rights in open source are built on the right to distribute, not to exclude. Remember that property is a socially constructed notion. The experience of intellectual property rights in the music distributed over the Internet is an important illustration of this new principle, and also of its contradictions. The Internet allows and enhances this new system of cooperation, while creating serious difficulties for the enforcement of traditional property rights.