Are you a gnower?
No, that’s NOT a typo. The participants at the Free Software, Free Society Conference in Thiruvananthapuram, South India just released the Thiruvananthapuram Declaration which coins the neologism “gnowledge.” Gnowledge combines knowledge with the ideal of GNU. The “G” is pronounced. A gnower is one who is involved in the “act of sharing knowledge.” This is a very exciting development!
To face the challenges of the day, we need a new model of development centered around non material aspects of life Ñ including collaboration, sharing, and compassion. Such a society is evolving today on the foundations of freedom, collaboration and shared knowledge…
…In our view, the gnowledge society will and must prefer:
freedom over bondage; sharing over monopoly; public good over private profit; participation over exclusion; cooperation over competition; diversity over uniformity.