Capital and the Enclosure of the Ethereum Software Commons
* Article: Capital and enclosure in software commons: Linux & Ethereum. By Trent. January 9th, 2024
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"Entities which extract profits from software commons like Linux and Ethereum have the greatest incentive and capacity to co-opt them."
Excerpts
The Egregore
via Trent:
"It’s interesting to frame the resource and its structure as an entity, or an “egregore.” This is a non-physical being which “exists in virtue of the collective ritual activities of a group yet operates autonomously, according to its own internal logic, to materially influence and control the group’s activities. The group creates the egregore, and the egregore creates the group, in a self-reinforcing feedback loop." (Wright, 2021)