"[In a commons] ... there are engagements with the market, they're just not capital-driven, and extractive, and predatory.

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There can be market activity, but as many Open Source communities know, introducing money and transactionalism to that community can poison relationships. Can start to erode the community. So there's a certain trickiness to dealing with money in a commons."

#DavidBollier, 2025

https://revolution.social/episodes/think-like-a-commoner-author-david-bollier-on-the-/

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A good summary of the 1990s internet commons, and maybe a warning for the online commons of the 2020s?

"Well, the Market hadn't figured out how to monetize it yet, and the commoners, for their part, didn't preemptively devise ways to protect the value they were creating."

#DavidBollier, 2025

https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/320-david-bollier

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