Firefox

Notes on a talk by Yochai Benkler on changes in economics related to free software and creative commons licensing.

This is really a new kind of production in that it is not market driven and it is not centralized. We’ve had market-driven, decentralized production (standard firms in the US), we’ve had market-driven, centralized production (large corporations), we’ve had non-market, centralized production (governments and NGOs, non-profits). What we have not had is non-market, decentralized production. (This echoes Clary Shirky’s assertions about Perl being an act of love).

Related Products: Visit our store

Read more from this blogger: Yochai Benkler at the Gartner Web Innovation / Open Source Summit