Open source has always served as a vanguard for the rest of our online behavior. In the late 1990s, open source was the poster child for a hopeful vision of widespread public collaboration, then dubbed “peer production.” Because open source software was starting to outpace software sold by companies, economists believed that these developers had achieved the unthinkable. As the internet floated peacefully in its embryonic state, it really did seem possible that the world might eventually be powered by the efforts of self-organized communities. But over the last twenty years, open source
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