Everything about Sharing totally explained
Sharing is the joint use of a resource or space. In its narrow sense, it refers to joint or alternating use of an inherently finite good, such as a common pasture or a
timeshared residence. It is also the process of dividing and distributing. Apart from obvious instances, which we can observe in human activity, we can also find many examples of this happening naturally in nature. When an organism takes in nutrition or oxygen for instance, its internal organs are designed to divide and distribute the energy taken in, to supply parts of its body that need it. Flowers divide and distribute their seeds. In a broader sense, it can also include the free granting of use rights to a good that's capable of being treated as a
nonrival good, such as information. Still more loosely, "sharing" can actually mean giving something as an outright gift: for example, to "share" one's food really means to give some of it as a gift.
Sharing figures prominently in
gift economies, but also can play a significant role in
market economies, for example in
car sharing.
The issue of handling shared resources figures prominently in
computer science: for example
time-sharing is an approach to interactive computing in which a single
computer is used to provide apparently simultaneous interactive general-purpose computing to multiple users by sharing processor time.
Sharing is a key feature in the developing field of
free software and
open source software, with implications for economics. This is leading to a need to review
licensing,
patents and
copyright, and to
controversy in these areas, as well as new approaches like
Creative Commons and the
GPL.
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