[ Thanks to freedomrhino for this
link. ]
“If a million monkeys typing might eventually produce the
collected works of Shakespeare, wouldn’t a million penguins do just
as well? A major book publisher is hoping so with a FOSS-powered
online project to create a collaborative novel–and appropriately,
that publisher is Penguin.“Called ‘a global experiment in new media writing,’ A Million
Penguins is Penguin UK’s public experiment in taking what it says
are the ‘social values’ seen at work in open source software and
applying them to the act of imaginative fiction…”