Not all of the commons, mind you, and not all at once. But each of our little slices of this vast wealth, our areas of interest, that which we wish to share, to curate, and to remix.

Why should programmers have a monopoly on the paradigm shifting technologies and new information topologies known to the open source software world as forking, diffing, and merging?

Imagine a new level of collaboration around open corporate and organizational systems, open government models, open solutions to our biggest challenges. Imagine that we could fork each other’s content and offer these changes back to the original authors, just as programmers can today with GitHub’s pull requests.

What if the commons were a space of global-scale remixing, a living symphony, a thriving ecosystem of creativity and innovation, built on a substrate of proliferation and organic evolution?

Read all of it here on Harlan Wood’s site:

What if we checked the commons into GitHub?

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