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The term was first introduced in Benkler's seminal paper and The Nature Of The Firm '' - a paper by Yochai Benkler defining what Commons-Based Peer Production is and how it works. The paper also includes a long study of what motivates contributors. "People participate in peer production communitites for a wide range of intrinsic and self-interested reasons....basically, people who participate in peer production communities love it. They feel passionate about their particular area of expertise and revel in creating something new or better." Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (2006), by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, Portfolio Books, p 70 Another definition, by Aaron Krowne (''''. EXAMPLES Examples of products created by means of commons-based peer production include Linux , a Computer Operating System ; Slashdot , a news and announcements website; Kuro5hin , a discussion site for technology and culture; Wikipedia , an online Encyclopedia ; and Clickworkers , a collaborative scientific work. OUTGROWTHS Several unexpected but foreseeable outgrowths have been:
RELATED CONCEPTS The ease in joining and leaving is a feature of Adhocracies . The principle of commons-based peer production is similar to Collective Invention , a model of Open Innovation in economics coined by Robert Allen.Robert C. Allen (1983): '' Collective invention ''. In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 4(1), p. 1-24 In 2006 Yochai Benkler also published The Wealth Of Networks , a book that builds heavily on the concept of commons-based peer production. SEE ALSO REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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