Category:Sharing: Difference between revisions

As simply defined by Wikipedia: Sharing is just "the joint use of a resource or space". Everything that is a Commons is a case of Sharing (between the relevant Commoners), but not all sharing involves a commons. The importance of the idea to P2P comes partly also from file-sharing, often carried out on P2P networks.

Key Quote

While Kevin Carson here is referring primarily to goods, this can also be applied to information resources.

"Sharing is a way of maximizing the utilization of idle productive goods owned by individuals. Just about any tool or appliance you need for a current project, but lack, is probably gathering dust on the shelf of someone within a few blocks of where you live. If the pooling of such idle resources doesn’t seem like much of a deal for the person with the unused appliances, keep in mind first that he isn’t getting anything at all out of them now, second that he may trade access to them for access to other people’s tools that he needs, and third that the arrangement may increase the variety of goods and services he has to choose from outside the wage system." - [1]

Key Concepts of This Category

• Sharing major material resources is dealt with, for example, in the pages Carsharing, Bikesharing and Cohousing.

Useful learning resources

Introductory

• Sharing

Deeper Study

• Introduction to the P2P Foundation Wiki Material about Sharing compiled by Michel Bauwens (ex category page)

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