Re: [ox-en] WikiLeaks and peer production?
- From: Mathieu ONeil <mathieu.oneil anu.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:19:43 +0100
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Does this change the character of being peer-production?
Apart from the money/governance angle it is not clear to me how they actually operate - how democratically or openly decisions are taken, apart from the fact that the reason openleaks forked off was because "Schmitt" contested the autocracry of the WL founder - see the Wired-leaked IRC chat logs etc.
cheers,
Mathieu
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From: Stefan Meretz <stefan meretz.de>
Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011 10:49 pm
Subject: Re: [ox-en] WikiLeaks and peer production?
To: list-en oekonux.org
On 2011-02-08 21:56, Mathieu ONeil wrote:
(...) raised the question of the deal
with the newspapers: does it cover expenses, legal fees etc?
No-one
knows. So while they may be producing transparency externally the
same cannot be said for their inner operations.
Concerning WikiLeaks that's true and commonly criticized. We
will see if
OpenLeaks will do better. Is every free software project
transparent in
this regard (serious question, I don't know)?
Does this change the character of being peer-production?
Ciao,
Stefan
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