Free-information norms arose partly because early collaborators had no proprietary profit to protect.

Evidence

The early internet was a capitalism-free zone. If anything, it seemed like an homage to Soviet Gosplan – the State Planning Committee whose job was to replace the market mechanism: a centrally designed, state-owned, non-commercial network. At the same time, it featured elements of early liberalism, even tributes to what I call ‘anarcho-syndicalism’: a network without hierarchy, it relied on horizontal decision-making and mutual gift exchange, not market exchanges. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 283 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The early internet was built as a non-capitalist, non-market commons — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 283

Related

• The early internet was built as a non-capitalist, non-market commons (similarity 0.88)
• The internet’s military-industrial origins enabled a new economic and social order. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The early internet was built as a non-capitalist, non-market commons #corroborates (0.80) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 283