Open source is a company; social media is a country

At the Sourceforge breakfast this morning we got some questions on what the organizational differences are between open source and social media. Here’s my answer: One of the paradoxes of early 20th Century management was the observation that companies are best run as dictatorships, while countries are best run as democracies. Why was this? Management theorist Charles Barnard, in his theory of the

[mn_kr]

“very different between open source and social media, even though people tend to lump them together into "peer production". Open source is hierarchical by design（most are run by a benevolent dictator or two）, while social media structure is simply ruled by popularity.”

[kgbu]

オープンソースプロジェクトは企業と似た統治形態(dictator)がfitする、ひるがえってsocial mediaは国家（民衆）統治として成功しているdemocraticがfitする、みたいな話