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* We have to become more cautious about the word "businesslike." There are some organizations that simply should not be run like businesses. These include governments, religious organizations, families and, what is pertinent here, educational organizations. Without thinking about it, in everyday life, we think that being business like is the same as being prudent in spending, efficient in the allocation of resources, and accurate in our accounting. We should. But the term has further implications that we need to examine carefully. A limited liability company is a legal person, and psychologists have depicted that person as a psychotic beast. That is because the law supports the goal that a corporation has only one ethic, to make a profit. It has no social obligation. Educational institutions are being increasingly told to be "self supporting," and depending less on public funds. This is resulting in the commodification of education. Certificates and degrees are becoming sold. Standards drop. The growth of the intellectual property values, albeit important, is only one element of this process, which can only have disastrous results. An important counteraction to this is the growing movement of shared and open copyright.--[[User:Philbartle|Phil Bartle]] 05:54, 13 June 2009 (UTC) | * We have to become more cautious about the word "businesslike." There are some organizations that simply should not be run like businesses. These include governments, religious organizations, families and, what is pertinent here, educational organizations. Without thinking about it, in everyday life, we think that being business like is the same as being prudent in spending, efficient in the allocation of resources, and accurate in our accounting. We should. But the term has further implications that we need to examine carefully. A limited liability company is a legal person, and psychologists have depicted that person as a psychotic beast. That is because the law supports the goal that a corporation has only one ethic, to make a profit. It has no social obligation. Educational institutions are being increasingly told to be "self supporting," and depending less on public funds. This is resulting in the commodification of education. Certificates and degrees are becoming sold. Standards drop. The growth of the intellectual property values, albeit important, is only one element of this process, which can only have disastrous results. An important counteraction to this is the growing movement of shared and open copyright.--[[User:Philbartle|Phil Bartle]] 05:54, 13 June 2009 (UTC) | ||
| − | * Back in the late sixties, early seventies, as a recently returned overseas volunteer, I linked up with a group of returned volunteers. Some of us called us radical, and I suppose we were unorthodox at least. We wanted to raise awareness that aid was ineffective, that honest trade relations were needed, and that the world could be improved. At that time, University of California, Berkeley, Political Science Club, created a simulation game, effective for about thirty persons, called [http://www.scn.org/cmp/modules/ine-str.htm Starpower]. It was good for illustrating inequality such as Apartheid, global inequality, or social class. We went around to schools and churches and ran the game with what we thought was great effect. It came to us as a cyclostyled single sheet of instructions, and we made our own tokens and ID tags. It belonged to the public domain. A few years ago, as I was developing the Community Empowerment site, I added a description of Starpower to the Inequality section. I found out that the game had been copyrighted by a commercial corporation, So I wrote to them saying I had the description and was getting it translated into various languages. It might raise their profile. I got a nasty letter from their lawyer telling me to stop writing about it, They owned the copyright, and did not want us writing about it. I was shocked. Being the defiant rebel that I am, I decided to write a sociological academic | + | * Back in the late sixties, early seventies, as a recently returned overseas volunteer, I linked up with a group of returned volunteers. Some of us called us radical, and I suppose we were unorthodox at least. We wanted to raise awareness that aid was ineffective, that honest trade relations were needed, and that the world could be improved. At that time, University of California, Berkeley, Political Science Club, created a simulation game, effective for about thirty persons, called [http://www.scn.org/cmp/modules/ine-str.htm Starpower]. It was good for illustrating inequality such as Apartheid, global inequality, or social class. We went around to schools and churches and ran the game with what we thought was great effect. It came to us as a cyclostyled single sheet of instructions, and we made our own tokens and ID tags. It belonged to the public domain. A few years ago, as I was developing the Community Empowerment site, I added a description of Starpower to the Inequality section. I found out that the game had been copyrighted by a commercial corporation, So I wrote to them saying I had the description and was getting it translated into various languages. It might raise their profile. I got a nasty letter from their lawyer telling me to stop writing about it, They owned the copyright, and did not want us writing about it. I was shocked. Being the defiant rebel that I am, I decided to write a sociological academic anallysis, but made sure it included sufficient description of the details of the game that anybody could make their own tokens and coupons and run the game for free. That would save them over two hundred dollars of the purchase price. The whole incident left a sour taste in my mouth, and is a big factor in my now being an advocate of the cc by sa approach. --[[User:Philbartle|Phil Bartle]] 15:31, 10 June 2009 (UTC) |
* Happy to hear that Sweden elected one seat to the Pirate Party in the European Parliament this weekend. The Pirate Party is opposed to the current spread of copyright, especially for non commercial ideas (Culture and Knowledge). --[[User:Philbartle|Phil Bartle]] 14:10, 8 June 2009 (UTC) | * Happy to hear that Sweden elected one seat to the Pirate Party in the European Parliament this weekend. The Pirate Party is opposed to the current spread of copyright, especially for non commercial ideas (Culture and Knowledge). --[[User:Philbartle|Phil Bartle]] 14:10, 8 June 2009 (UTC) | ||
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