min 21:34 ! Exactly what we are talking about. The "free" notion is nothing more than the same trade system. Cows for mils > service for a good > skills for food > then later on we invented some mediums to keep track of these, called currencies. So it went something like: I trade my skills for money, because money represents some value and can be traded later for some food. In the present we trade our data for entertainment, our attention (via ads) for all kinds of other services. It is THE SAME EXACT SYSTEM. Only different are the flavors of it. We explain it all in detail in two books - one about the beginning of it all https://www.tromsite.com/books/#flipbook-df_6616/1/ and one about the present of it https://www.tromsite.com/books/#flipbook-df_6562/1/

@Aral Balkan is the speaker.

That's the reason we came up with an experimental idea - https://www.trade-free.org/ - that applies to everything, not just software.

Good talk! #tromlive

Free is a Lie (Aral Balkan at The Next Web 2014)

A keynote I gave at The Next Web 2014. The original video has now been unlisted on Google’s surveillance-based video sharing site and so cannot be easily found…

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