[p2p-research] Amazon created the workforce online market

[Michel Bauwens]

what we have on bounties:

http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Source_Bounties

http://p2pfoundation.net/Reverse_Bounty

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Don,
>
> you write: so far, none of the so-called "bounty systems"
>
> for paying rewards to fix bugs or add features in
> collaborative projects seem to have caught on.
> I'm interested in any material on this, including by you,
>
> also, any critiques, explanations of mechanical turk would be welcome, it's
> not covered in our wiki yet,
>
> Michel
>
>   On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Don Marti <dmarti at zgp.org> wrote:
>
>> begin magius quotation of Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 05:27:33PM +0200:
>> > Amazon created this website, where is possible to sell and to buy
>> > "abstract work units" (hits):
>> >
>> > https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
>> >
>> > Imho it's the capitalist valorization of what created by the
>> > freesoftware communities. Individual commits of coders to shared
>> > collective project's code on collaborative platforms (i.e.
>> > Sourceforge) basicly are "abstract work units". Here comes the Capital
>> > that make business on collaboration..
>>
>> The tasks are very different from free software
>> development.  Typically they're things like "identify
>> the type of business shown in this photo" or "select
>> a category for this directory listing."
>>
>> (You can't split up a software project into abstract
>> work units.  The industry has been trying to do so
>> for decades.)
>>
>> And so far, none of the so-called "bounty systems"
>> for paying rewards to fix bugs or add features in
>> collaborative projects seem to have caught on.
>>
>> --
>> Don Marti
>> http://zgp.org/~dmarti/
>> dmarti at zgp.org
>>
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