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Archive for December, 2008

Emergence: an unusable illusion for companies (posted by Fabien Villard)

In the open source community we see very efficient results emerging from non organized groups of people acting individually. Companies should fear this mechanism because it cannot be used inside organized entities. There are economical explanations of this for example in this book from Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations [...]