Political Diversity and Taking Libre Software Out of the IT Sphere

(This is where things get fun.)

Each of the three organizations mentioned in the last slide also see libre software as a model on which they can base their philosophy and actions for the purposes of contradictory goals.

We can walk through the list once again:

Indymedia (radical anti-capitalist left);
I.B.M. (capitalist);
The emerging commons movement led by Lawrence Lessig and David Bollier (arguing for limitations on capitalism);