Commons-based Peer Production

Me he encontrado en M2M con este artículo, "Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm" de cuyo resumen he querido reproducir aquí un párrafo descriptivo. Habrá que volver sobre él, para leerlo con más detenimiento; aunque, como aperitivo, podéis ir mirando las entradas de Ronald Coase y Gift Economy en Wikipedia.

"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."

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