Talk:Chapter 1

"In many rural communities mutuals and cooperatives still organise the marketing of agricultural products."

Mutuals are still big in insurance no? Any other places?

The basic unit of organized labor on the Internet is not the Organization, but rather, the Project.
One of my mantra is that: "The basic unit of organized labor on the Internet is not the Organization, but rather, the Project."

We talk about Open Source projects, on the Internet; Not Open Source organizations.

Projects divide like amoeba, they get copied, they collapse. The participants within the projects reconfigure. But all in all, projects are the basic unit of organizing, whereas more traditionally, projects were things that organizations executed / did.

Perhaps you may find some value in this line.

That said: There are bona fida organizations that have evolved on the Internet. The Apache Foundation. KDE. GNOME. Before them, there was the IETF. But for organizations, they're all pretty wild looking.

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