Monday, April 2, 2007
The commons problem and open source
The commons problem and open source
Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ March 29th, 2007
Between them open source and the Internet represent the greatest expansion of the commons in history.
A commons is shared. It is available to all. And in America today, most of our commons are trashed.
These same problems are prevalent on the Internet. Spammers, scammers, hackers, and p2p file hoarders use far more bandwidth than all legal, legitimate users combined.
We adapt well to all these things. We find new business models in them...says Dana in this interesting post. Read the full post here @ ZD Net blogs
Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ March 29th, 2007
Between them open source and the Internet represent the greatest expansion of the commons in history.
A commons is shared. It is available to all. And in America today, most of our commons are trashed.
These same problems are prevalent on the Internet. Spammers, scammers, hackers, and p2p file hoarders use far more bandwidth than all legal, legitimate users combined.
We adapt well to all these things. We find new business models in them...says Dana in this interesting post. Read the full post here @ ZD Net blogs
Labels: analysis, commons, problems
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