Re: [ox-en] WikiLeaks and peer production?

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> Does this change the character of being peer-production?

Apart from the money/governance angle it is not clear to me how they actually operate - how democratically or openly decisions are taken, apart from the fact that the reason openleaks forked off was because "Schmitt" contested the autocracry of the WL founder - see the Wired-leaked IRC chat logs etc.
cheers,
Mathieu

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From: Stefan Meretz <stefan-/[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011 10:49 pm
Subject: Re: [ox-en] WikiLeaks and peer production?
To: [email protected]

> On 2011-02-08 21:56, Mathieu ONeil wrote:
> > (...) raised the question of the deal
> > with the newspapers: does it cover expenses, legal fees etc? 
> No-one
> > knows. So while they may be producing transparency externally the
> > same cannot be said for their inner operations.
> 
> Concerning WikiLeaks that's true and commonly criticized. We 
> will see if 
> OpenLeaks will do better. Is every free software project 
> transparent in 
> this regard (serious question, I don't know)?
> 
> Does this change the character of being peer-production?
> 
> Ciao,
> Stefan
> 
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The Australian National University
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