[governance] Are Techies from Venus and Non-techies from Mars :)

[McTim]

Here is an interesting use of the word "markets" in a communications "Manifesto"

http://www.cluetrain.com/

rgds,

McTim

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 4:22 PM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the course of some private discussions with techie colleagues concerning
> my comments on RFC 6852  it fairly quickly became clear that we were using
> the terminology around "competition"and "collaboration" in quite
> different--in fact, diametrically opposite, ways.
>
> For me "competition" evokes market based relationships and in fact, in most
> policy discourses "competition" is generally used as a code word for the
> pursuit of private interests and "free markets" a la the Washington
> Consensus actively promoting the opening up of telecom markets globally (as
> Milton quite correctly, if disparagingly, understood in his reply to my
> original comments).  Similarly for me "collaboration" refers to the joint
> puruit of common goals (as for example, social collaboration in support of
> the public interest, or p2p relationships, social solidarity and so on) and
> in a policy context would be appropriate to interpose as a balance to a
> position supporting "competition".
>
> For my tech colleagues the understanding, at least according to two
> non-communicating tech folks was that "competition" is seen as being the
> means by which to "limit the power of otherwise overly powerful corporations
> and cartels". While on the other hand "collaboration" needs to be controlled
> "otherwise it will lead to the formation of harmful cartels".  (While these
> latter uses of the terms are clearly correct they would never have occurred
> to me, at least, as being primary definitions that might be used in a
> document such as RFC 6852.)
>
> (As an aside, I'm wondering whether at least some of the disputes that have
> been recurrent themes of the IGC discussions might not have similar origins
> in rather profound domain centric mutual misunderstandings as to the use of
> quite common terms.)
>
> M
>
>
>
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