It's worth noting that while Richard Stallman and Eric S. Raymond
played important roles historically and published
widely-read-at-the-time analyses, both have had significant falls from
grace since then and basing current analyses of the commons and other
systems on their work should be done _very_ carefully.

cheers
stuart

--
...let us be heard from red core to black sky

On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 at 11:39, Todd Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> If you're looking for general history on the digital commons movement,
> check out Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation, and Eric S.
> Raymond's *The Cathedral and the Bazaar*. A lot of the initial Wikipedians
> were very much in favor of open source and open content, and were quite
> familiar with those. I don't, to be quite honest, know about "E. Ostrom",
> and have never heard them discussed on-wiki, but of course other editors
> might be.
>
> But if you really want to see the influence of the "commons" idea on
> Wikipedia, the open source software movement is going to be very relevant
> to what you want to look at. Mediawiki, the software that Wikipedia and
> other Wikimedia sites run on, is open source, and the technology stack
> underlying it is as well.
>
> On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 9:05 AM Sebastien Shulz <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm currently doing a Ph.d on digital commons. I'm tracing the history of
> > the "digital common" movement (if there is one). And I wanted to know if
> > there are some studies about Wikipedians and their relation with the
> > conceptual framework of the commons (do they feel like commoners ? Do they
> > know E. Ostrom, etc.)
> > Thanks a lot for your help !
> > Best regards,
> >
> > *Sébastien Shulz*
> > *Doctorant en sociologie *
> > *Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés*
> > *06.68.86.68.46 // Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastien-shulz>*
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