Jason Rohrer (* 14 November 1977) is a free programmer, author and an artist. It is among other things well-known as a developer of the anonymous exchange stock exchange and but that it cracked minutes of on-line music shop Apple iTunes. Rohrer lives at present (2005) in potsdam, New York.

Copyright

Jason Rohrer rejects the copyright. In its essay Free distribution (English for free spreading) it pleads for two alternative remuneration mechanisms: On the one hand for the Street Performer Protocol, with which the author publishes a work freely, as soon as before a money determined by him is together paid by the prospective customers. On the other hand for a system, with which the author is paid sequentially by his trailers.

Rohrer acts even in this sense and tries to live only from donations to. It documents its work in a log. It publishes its program and other work under free licenses (free software and/or free contents) or makes it in common-free (English public domain) available.

Other projects

North Country Notes (NCN) is a Regiogeld project in potsdam, New York. After it had originally helped little only, Jason Rohrer transferred the entire project of those, which had started it in October 2004.

In the winter 2003 Jason Rohrer sketched a new paper currency system, the Z-dollar. It published the idea however only one and a half one years later to 24. May 2005.

Family and private life

Jason Rohrer applies the simple life, which he leads with his family, in order to strengthen the regional economy and to lower their ecological foot casting.

Related links

• Jason Rohrers homepage
• North Country Notes

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• Free Distribution
  ... schemes that others may propose, it is possible to make a living as a creator in a world of free distribution. Jason Rohrer Potsdam, NY September 2004.


• freshmeat.net: User information
  User info page for Jason Rohrer. Name: Jason Rohrer. User ID: ... Jason Rohrer didn't post any article comments yet. Posted project comments ...


• Jason Rohrer
  Jason Rohrer. painter -- scholar -- poet -- lover -- scientist -- composer -- disciplinarian. Currently parenting and doing independent research in Potsdam, ...


• Notes about iTMS-4-ALL
  Jason Terk has released a version of the script that uses CSS/XHTML, and you can try his live script. ... Jason Rohrer April 16, 2004.


• ONLamp.com -- Anonymous, Open Source P2P with MUTE
  Howard Wen interviews Jason Rohrer, the developer of the MUTE anonymous peer-to-peer networking software.