- From: Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca>
- Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 21:13:48 -0400
- To: Pindar Wong <pindar.wong@gmail.com>
- Cc: Web Payments <public-webpayments@w3.org>
Pindar, Great presentation. I have one point to mention which is sort of tangential to this list, but evidently is quite important to the approach being pursued in Hong Kong. The issue is that the phrase "Intellectual Property" seems entirely coherent to some and entirely incoherent to others: -- World Intellectual Property Organization http://www.wipo.int -- Did You Say "Intellectual Property"? It's a Seductive Mirage http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html I know many people roll their eyes at this, but it's more than an academic issue -- it's political and legal. And the tug-of-war goes back centuries: Back to the Future (1773) http://www.ifosslr.org/ifosslr/article/view/23 Two neutral alternatives that don't raise red flags for the free/libre/open source community are: * "intellectual resources" -- Introduced by Kenneth Boulding in a 1963 article: http://www.jstor.org/pss/985441 * "intellectual capital" which the accounting professions settled on: -- Understanding corporate value: managing and reporting intellectual capital http://www.cimaglobal.com/Documents/ImportedDocuments/tech_techrep_understanding_corporate_value_2003.pdf -- MERITUM Project Guidelines for Managing and Reporting on Intangibles www.pnbukh.com/files/pdf_filer/MERITUM_Guidelines.pdf -- Intellectual capital: Concepts, components and indicators: A literature review http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol2/msl_2012_185.pdf -- Intellectual Capital Statements - The New Guideline https://pure.au.dk/ws/files/32340329/guideline_uk.pdf -- Intellectual Capital Accounts. Reporting and managing intellectual capital. The Danish Trade and Industry Development Council. Submission to the OECD. http://www.oecd.org/sti/ind/1948022.pdf Writing in my capacity as... Joseph Potvin Chair, OSI Working Group on Management Education About Free/Libre/Open Methods, Processes and Governance jpotvin@opman.ca Mobile: 819-593-5983 On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 8:16 PM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote: > APRICOT is a group of people that keep the Internet running in the > Asia-Pacific region. If you haven't read the closing keynote from > APRICOT 2014 on payments, you should. It's really well done: > > https://conference.apnic.net/data/37/27Feb14-APRICOT-Closing-Plenary-DRAFT.txt > > ... and as an added bonus, it's done by one of our very own Web Payments > CG members, Pindar Wong. > > -- manu > > -- > Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny) > Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. > blog: The Worlds First Web Payments Workshop > http://www.w3.org/2013/10/payments/ > -- Joseph Potvin Operations Manager | Gestionnaire des opérations The Opman Company | La compagnie Opman http://www.projectmanagementhotel.com/projects/opman-portfolio jpotvin@opman.ca Mobile: 819-593-5983 LinkedIn (Google short URL): http://goo.gl/Ssp56
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