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Gift Culture
An annotated collection of 1 essays on gift culture, spanning 1998. Featuring works by Eric S. Raymond — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Homesteading the Noosphere
Eric S. Raymond, 1998 · First Monday, Vol. 3, No. 10
Raymond's companion essay to The Cathedral and the Bazaar, this one about the social dynamics of the open-source world — a gift economy operating on reputation and ownership rules that parallel and invert the norms of co…