Saturday, April 09, 2005
Yochai Benkler on "commons-based peer-production"
Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law at Yale writes...
"In this paper I explain that while free software is highly visible, it is in fact only one example of a much broader social-economic phenomenon. I suggest that we are seeing is the broad and deep emergence of a new, third mode of production in the digitally networked environment. I call this mode "commons-based peer-production," to distinguish it from the property- and contract-based models of firms and markets. Its central characteristic is that groups of individuals successfully collaborate on large-scale projects following a diverse cluster of motivational drives and social signals, rather than either market prices or managerial commands. "
http://www.yale.edu/yalelj/112/BenklerWEB.pdf
