Design

XI.3 May + June 2004
Page: 18
Digital Citation

In praise of tweaking


Authors:
Ned Gulley

I know something you want to know. But will I tell you? Why should I? What's in it for me? Internet technology makes the simple act of online collaboration easy, but human nature stubbornly resists change. Why should I collaborate with you? What would convince me to share my ideas with you, given that you might use them to compete with me? In a larger sense, how might we build a system that encourages people to collaborate in, for example, writing useful code? These are some of the questions we have explored with a new kind of open source…




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