The claim to fame of Yahoo! was, we hire people to look -- originally, not anymore -- we hire people to look at websites and tell you -- if they're in the index, they're good. This, on the other hand, is what 60,000 passionate volunteers produce in the Open Directory Project, each one willing to spend an hour or two on something they really care about, to say, this is good. So, this is the Open Directory Project, with 60,000 volunteers, each one spending a little bit of time, as opposed to a few hundred fully paid employees. No one owns it, no one owns the output, it's free for anyone to use and it's the output of people acting out of social and psychological motivations to do something interesting.
Tvrdnja kojom je Yahoo! postao poznat, mi zapošljavamo ljude -- u početku, sada više ne -- mi zapošljavamo ljude da pregledavaju internetske stranice i kažu vam -- ako su u kazalu, dobre su. Ovo je, s druge strane, nešto što 60.000 strastvenih volontera proizvodi u Open Directory Project-u. Svaki od njih voljan je posvetiti sat ili dva nečemu do čega im je uistinu stalo, kako bi rekli, ovo je dobro. Ovo je dakle Open Directory Project, s 60.000 volontera od kojih svaki potroši malo vremena, naspram nekoliko stotina zaposlenika na punoj plaći. Nitko ga nema u vlasništvu, nitko nije vlasnik proizvoda, besplatno ga može koristiti svatko i on je kanal kojim ljudi izražavaju svoje društvene i psihološke porive da naprave nešto zanimljivo.