Open source economics

by ellis on Wednesday, 4 June, 2008 · 1 comment

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In this video, Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization.

Is he right? Could the same economic rules be applied to the technical writing projects, where there is a large user base?

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1 Anne Gentle June 6, 2008 at 4:02 am

Love those TED videos – so thought provoking. I’ve been thinking myself about “free software” and free documentation related to my volunteer work for FLOSS manuals writing for the One Laptop Per Child project. My The State of Free Documentation blog entry is an attempted roundup of my thoughts on the economies of open source.

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