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2017-01-12: How 'Free as in Freedom' Will Finally Win

The GNU GPL is a mysterious copyright license that uses private property ownership to create a walled garden within the immaterial realm.

The rules of this trade agreement are designed to insure users have the freedom to use, modify, copy and share any Object they own.  It does this partly by requiring every user gain at-cost access the all the Sources needed to change that Object.

The term 'Sources' originally meant the human-readable design of the program but now generally means the designs of whatever is being protected and the designs of all the immaterial tools needed to use, modify, copy and share those Objects.

But we live in a material world.  We must have at-cost access to the land and material tools needed to use, modify, copy and share the goods and services we need to live.

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Throughout history, communities have tried over and over to create self-sufficient villages to make life easy when faced with the help of governments and corporations :-D

But all too often, the original purpose of the gathering is forgotten, causing users again lose control of their community.

We can crowdfund the Property without debt by selling goods and servies before they are delivered.
But ownership cannot be static.  It must 'flow' to those who add value to others in the community.

Time banking helps us trade Promises, but the order of operations needs some adjustment.
Trading commitments early, before production begins, allows us to for Property on a work-to-own basis and so avoid wages and bills.

These rules must protect users by assuring they gain access to the physical Sources of Production for that product.

The surprisingly simple solution is to treat part of profit as the payer's investment in more land and tools, etc. needed to make more copies of that good or service.

Treating profit as the payer's investment causes growth to be autodistributed to those who paid for that growth.