[ExI] it's better than it used to be

Mirco Romanato painlord2k at libero.it
Sun May 1 18:31:14 UTC 2011


Il 01/05/2011 18:59, Damien Broderick ha scritto:
> On 5/1/2011 1:14 AM, Kevin Freels wrote:
>>
>> Have you considered that the new economic model represented by Wikipedia
>> isn't new at all? It is communism.
> 
> No, it's anarchism. (Except that it's not really, because Jimmy and the
> others at the top still have unelected executive power.)

It is anarcho-capitalism, because Jim Whales keep to be the owner of
Wikipedia (the infrastructure), but he can not force anyone to do as he
wish. He can only try to entice them to work for Wikipedia.

In fact, many people have set up many different versions of Wikipedia
because they don't like the rules there.

Mirco




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