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== Examples == {{unreferenced section|date=November 2020}} Identifiable trends and movements outside of the mainstream economy which have adopted prosumer terminology and techniques include: *a ''Do It Yourself'' ([[DIY]]) approach as a means of economic self-sufficiency or simply as a way to survive on diminished income *the [[open source software]] movement creates software on their own,{{clarify|date=June 2024}} prime example is the successful [[operating system]] [[Linux]] which now dominates the server domain *[[Fablab]] movement, self-fabrication capabilities especially [[3D printing]] *the [[voluntary simplicity]] movement that seeks personal, social, and environmental goals through prosumer activities such as: **growing one's own food **repairing clothing and appliances rather than buying new items **playing musical instruments rather than listening to recorded music *use of new media-creation and distribution technologies to foster independent, open, non-profit, "consumer-to-consumer" media and cultures (see [[Wikipedia]], [[Independent Media Center|Indymedia]], most of [[Creative Commons]]); many involved in independent media reject [[popular culture|mass culture]] generated by [[concentration of media ownership|concentrated corporate media]]
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