Linux & Ethereum: Commoning vs Commodifiying

Name: Linux & Ethereum: Commoning vs Commodifiying
Duration: 26 min
Description: Trent Van Epps compares Linux and Ethereum as case studies in commoning versus commodifying shared technology, at Protocol Berg 2023. The talk considers how each project's governance and licensing choices shaped whether it stayed a genuine commons or became something closer to a commodified product controlled by a narrower set of commercial interests.

Protocol Berg 2023 · 15 Sept 2023 · 26:00

Trent Van Epps compares Linux and Ethereum as case studies in commoning versus commodifying shared technology, at Protocol Berg 2023. The talk considers how each project's governance and licensing choices shaped whether it stayed a genuine commons or became something closer to a commodified product controlled by a narrower set of commercial interests.

Speakers

Trent Van Epps

From Protocol Berg 2023, hosted by Department of Decentralization.