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Yochai Benkler
Open-source economics? Perhaps it is more appropriate to call it social production, according to Harvard Law Professor Yochai Benkler. Wikipedia is far from the first example of this new mode. The first achievement of what Benkler calls social production was open-source software.
Open-source software began to emerge in the 90s. In open source, groups of programmers began to cooperate to build software, which turned out in practice to often be simpler, more robust, and more secure than the paid variety. Today, open-source code runs everything from operating systems used by statisticians to the software that runs 70 percent of Web servers.
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