Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free
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| It might seem very odd to look to a long-dead Russian anarchist for
| business advice. But Peter Kropotkin's big idea--that there are
| important human motivations beyond what he called "reckless
| individualism"--is very relevant these days. That's because one
| of the most interesting questions in business has become how much
| work people will do for free.
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| Open-source, volunteer-created computer software like the Linux
| operating system and the Firefox Web browser have also established
| themselves as significant and lasting economic realities. That's
| not true yet in the worlds of science, news and entertainment:
| we're still figuring out what the role of volunteers will be,
| but that it will be much bigger than in the past seems obvious.
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1590440,00.html
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