Re: AUT: Re: M-I: Communist relations of production within

[devries@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>I agree with Ben's interpretation of the facts.
>One should also see them this way: Producing software - in my opinion -
>generally exceeds the limits of surplus production. The profits of
>Microsoft & Co made by selling their software are not the realization
>of surplus value that comes out of ever again exploiting labor
>producing commodities. The commodity is produced once and then just
>copied at extremely low cost. This way labor invested in production is
>not at all a measure for the value realized on the markets. Selling it
>as a commodity is a social form that is already inadequate.

While agreeing with the end result that software should be free, I disagree
with the above reasoning.  All commodities require a much larger up-front
investment than they do to replicate.  With software the new product comes
more frequently than some, but the point is the same.  The fact that
computer programmers are paid much higher wages than equally necessary
assembly line disc or CD rom makers doesn't change the process of the
creation of surplus value.

love and struggle,

Joshua Freeze
Anarcho-Banjoist
ATU 1549 Recording Secretary
IWW Branch Secretary
Lucy Parsons GMB
P.O.Box 254
Austin Texas 78767




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