"The Internet was deliberately designed by hackers to be an innovation commons , a laboratory for collaboratively creating better technologies. They knew that some community of hackers in the future would know more about networks than the original creators, so the designers of the Internet took care to avoid technical obstacles to future innovation. The creation of the Internet was a community enterprise, and the media that the original hackers created were meant to support communities of creators. To this end, several of the most essential software programs that make the Internet possible are not owned by any commercial enterprise - a hybrid of intellectual property and public good, invented by hackers."
-Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs, p. 15 (Tip of the hat to Jon Lebkowsky)
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