[-empyre-] from communities to festivals / printing printers

[Adrian Bowyer]

marloes wrote:

> Of course not many feel exploited, it is fun and done out of free 
> will, but why do we massively choose to do these things under the 
> terms of corporations instead of our own?

I think that Geoffrey Miller (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Miller_(evolutionary_psychologist) ) has
the right idea here: it is a mating strategy.

We do collaborative work for free to show off the peacock's tail that is our mind.

The fact that doing such work gives great and immediate inner satisfaction is
exactly what you'd expect an evolved mating strategy to feel like emotionally.

See this:

http://www.reprap.org/wiki/EndOfIntellectualProperty

Best wishes

Adrian

Dr Adrian Bowyer
http://people.bath.ac.uk/ensab
http://reprap.org