This has been the status quo for a while — either you have entirely open, non-commercial projects like Wikipedia or you have unilaterally owned projects like Eureka. But now, thanks to lower costs of building products and lower costs of implementing community ownership, we are starting to see a new mode: community owned peer production.

A new kind of business is emerging: one that

Many of the most interesting innovations revolve around novel production, funding, and ownership models that shift the balance of power toward workers and ordinary people. Commons-based peer production (CBPP), the system that produced critical open infrastructure such as Wikipedia and Linux, involves a large volunteer community supported by smaller... See more

according to commons scholar and activist Silke Helfrich, offer ways to both perceive and interact with Commons, which can be seen as:

Collectively managed resources , both material and immaterial, which need protection and require a lot of knowledge and know-how.

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