A new way to produce is emerging. By this I mean: a new way to produce anything and everything, whether it is software, food, or cities. What once required rigid organisations and a society defined by the mentality of hierarchies, we are discovering now and in many cases re-discovering how to do through free association of peers. It is also becoming clear that entering an era defined by an ethos of free association and horizontality doesn’t mean institutionality itself will dissappear, but that it will undergo the deepest of transformations. In the emerging institutional model of peer production, most visibly in the free software industry, we can distinguish an interplay between three partners: A community of contributors that create commons of knowledge, software or design; An enterpreneurial coalition that creates market value on top of that commons; and A set of for-benefit institutions which manage the “infrastructure of cooperation”
Giorgio Bertini
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