Clay Shirky needs to stop drinking kool-aid laced sterno. In the chapter, Failure for Free, he concludes with this amazing news!
"What the open source movement teaches us is that the communal can be at least as durable as the commercial. For any given piece of software the question "Do the people who like it take care of each other?" turns out to be a better predictor of success than "What's the business model?" As the rest of the world gets access to the tools once reserved for techies, that pattern is appearing everywhere, and it is changing society as it does."
good christ on a broken pogo stick!
watch out people, the revolution is coming. any day now. myspace, alt.i.hearts.cats, wikipedia, and perl mean that whereas community "has not historically been a good guarantor longevity" that is all changing. Now, technology makes community and love possible in a way that has never been before.
shag
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