"Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything" is a book by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams. It came out in 2006.
In short the book says that the mass collaboration which makes Wikipedia possible is applied more and more in industry. The authors claim that the new development model makes significant cost savings possible. As we know, Wikipedia received two vital inputs from the free software movement. First, the site uses free software extensively. Second, free software projects illustrated the merits of mass collaboration and laid down the basic ethos and rules. A whole chapter of "Wikinomics" (if I recall correctly) is devoted to Boeing and its development of the model 787 "Dreamliner" jet plane. When two 787-Max planes crashed and 345 lives were lost in 2018 and 2019 Boeing was criticized for putting profits above safety. These accidents changed my attitude toward the book and its sequel: "Macro-Wikinomics." I now feel that the authors were overly optimistic and failed to examine the negative side of their subject matter. With the most recent 737-Max incident Boeing's corporate culture has again come under scrutiny. --- What does "Wikinomics" say about GNU? It says nothing. There is no mention of GNU anywhere. It does mention that Finnish student Linus Torvalds made a simple version of the UNIX operating system. As we here all know, this description is not accurate. We can see this as evidence of the shallowness of the research which went into the book. All this is unfortunate for the book is so widely known. _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
