From Linux to Wikipedia: How Volunteers Build the Internet

	From Linux to Wikipedia: How Volunteers Build the Internet(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
	342 points by jonbaer 5 days ago \| 136 comments
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	HN Discussion: ~Modern tech has eroded the passion, means, and skills that enabled volunteer building ↓Most Linux contributors are paid employees, not pure volunteers, so framing is misleading ↑Linux and Wikipedia reveal a hopeful truth about human cooperation and generosity ~Volunteers build the foundation but money chasers eventually optimize and corrupt the fields ↑The people built the internet but governments and corporations ruined it