https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/is-a-digital-commons-sustainable-without-corporate-support/2009/02/18 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:09:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/is-a-digital-commons-sustainable-without-corporate-support/2009/02/18/comment-page-1#comment-380124 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:09:30 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=2446#comment-380124 The question if the big projects can live without big traditional organisation supporting them alone is not that important – a better question would be how much influence can such organisations buy by providing that support. It is a question of balance – and this is where the ‘hacker ethic’ becomes the imporatant factor. And it is quite natural, as was already described in ‘The Wealth of the Networks’, that tasks come in different granularities and that good peer projects find participants for each of the granularity.

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