[iDC] Undermining open source: iTunes U

[John Hopkins]

>  > i think Apple has been let off the hook for a long time 
>especially by cultural
>>  activists. Bill Gates and Microsoft have been an easy bugbear, but Apple are
>>  monopolists too and have been since they first started making an 
>>OS that works
>  > only with their own hardware.

every social institution seeks to guide (a polite term) the 
relational expressions and impressions of participating nodes in 
discrete reductive pathways which may or may not suit each individual 
node:  adopt or become a non-participating node in that social 
structure.

acquiesce to that worldview and participate.

resist (or simply turn ones back on that whole system) and create new 
pathways:  be prepared for those who are heavily invested in the 
dominating social institutions to 'not get it.'  only those who leave 
channels open aside from the dominant pathways will be able to 
receive alternate expressions and impressions.

every social structure of any scale greater than two nodes will be 
reductive because of the need to correlate three or more distinct 
view-points (points-of-view) -- that requires a system of 
observational/experiential interpolation (protocols) to identify 
fundamental like-nesses between the points-of-view.  this correlation 
process -- the development of a mediative 'technology' to carry 
(shared) impressions and expressions between nodes -- is a 
fundamental (and necessary)process of social development.  and leads 
to exemplary structures as are mentioned above.  the two examples 
differ only in scale, though the organizing principles and goals of 
each are similar (the same!).  That is to induce the greatest number 
of nodes to acquiesce to their protocol-of-relation.

the greater the personal acquiescence, the greater the general 
feeling of alienation.

Cheers
John