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Re:Chomsky on Intellectual Property by dexen on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @06:48PM (#2334310)
There exists concept of Gift economy [1] where scarcity is not a driving factor. The (historical) implementations we had so far aren't exactly shining examples of quick development. But it may have been just partly related, or even unrelated, to the economic model.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy

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Re:Chomsky on Intellectual Property by dolokhov on Thursday March 17, 2011 @02:14PM (#2337270)
the online gift economy does not have to remain limited to digital culture

www.giftflow.org (still in alpha)

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