"...The first examples of online creation communities are development communities, that is communities developed around free software programming, such as the communities around Apache, GNU and Linux, Debian or Drupal. The emergence of development communities constituted an empowering and inspiring experience in terms of a collaborative frame of production and in terms of a “copyleft” knowledge management system that favours creativity and re-use. They are based on a decentralised community of passionate “hackers” collaborating to write the code, and leaving it open to allow it to be re-used and further developed..."