Equipotentiality – proposes that although contributors skills are necessarily varied, all participants do have the potential to make a unique contribution, and must be invited through the design and structure of the shared project to do so where this is most appropriate.
All contributions to an open source or produsage project are evaluated by the community at large
Depends crucially on the efficiency of evaluation processes themselves
Contributions must be granular
The basic law of open source is that debugging is parallelizable
Long tail
Ad hoc decisions
Leaders come and go - driven by content
Forking – same code; different product
Quote of the day: “Unloved software can’t be built using Open Source methods.” Ha ha.
Is it a contradiction, then, when he says, “One way to get people to do things they wouldn’t do for love is to pay them.”
Most widely used free platform is SourceForge.net
Much open source software produsage itself builds at least on initial material produced in a traditional mode.
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