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Collaboration has always existed, but only today its importance has been amplified to such levels that it is now considered more promising than competition. Thanks to the ITC distributed infrastructures, collaboration is being diffused as an organizational form outside of the Free Software / Open Source / P2P Communities. To all these cases directly inspired by the Open P2P phenomenon9, we can add some other cases that, even if not explicitly inspired by Open P2P, share some of its features (and therefore they could have been influenced indirectly)10. We can also add some previous cases (and therefore without relations with Open P2P), but that had developed communitybased organizational forms able to build long collaborative networks with an active role of the participants11. The existence of these last two categories is of fundamental importance: community-based organizational forms are not just for Open Source / Free Software / P2P software, but they are very important, and as they tend to develop some common characteristics, they can be used therefore for a 9. For example: Thinkcycle, OSCar, Open Health. 10. For example: BBC Action Network, Neubauten.org, Pledgebank. 11. For example: Amul, Dabbawalla, Grameen Bank.
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