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03/05/2007: "ABSOLUT FRINGE(Ware)"

This was from 1994 or so. I was a (largely silent) part of Fringeware.



Neotribalism in the Global Village... FringeWare, Inc. (FWI), is a smallcommercial enterprise dedicated to community development around a fringemarketplace, where the edges of diverse alternative cultures intersect. Wefeel that the Market is the core of any community, and sick markets mean sick communities... just look around.

FringeWare acknowledges the essential importance of trade, but our mission is tocreate a context for E. F. Schumacher's "Economics as if People Mattered."

What's in the Fringe Market? We focus on publications, events, and products that we find interesting, fun, and enlightening... we engage in the following business activites:Publishing printed and electronicperiodicals including FringeWare Review (ISSN 1069-5636) and UnshavedTruths (ISSN 1075-4458); Operating a retail outlet and mail order
service selling street tech, software, gizmos, wearable subversive memes,
etc.; Hosting an Internet mailing list for information from/about thecultural and technological fringes and providing an automated listserver for FWI archies (see p.1 for details); Organizing events with
other firms and organizations on the Fringes.

We're learning that people can survive quite nicely without huge corporations, huge governments, and huge dogmas pushing their lives. Sohere is the FWI alternative: start your own corporation. Trade withother like-minded people throughout the Global Village. Encourageinnovation and promote entrepeneurship. Promote fair, cooperativebusiness practices. Emphasize products that facilitate creativity,health, and play. Explore consciousness alternatives. Build community through advanced, available technologies, e.g. computer networks. Respect and consider the natural environment by promoting sustainable resourceuse. Have fun, be weird, and make what it takes to survive.

Welcome to the fringes of art, technology, and society. From here innovation emerges, and here survival, through cooperation and use of the unexpected, counts. --Thanx!