"...The hungry and cold unemployed masses aren't going to continue giving away their intellectual labor on the Internet in the speculative hope that they might get some "back end" revenue." http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=556&doc_id=166342
Sheesh. But of course that's *not* *why* people give away their intellectual labor on the Internet, so the rest of his conclusions are compoundingly false.
People give away their labor in this case because it makes them feel good, and/or because of the non-monetary community rewards surrounding the effort. Neither of those changes materially as the economy goes down (or up).
(I'd post this as a comment to his article, but their registration procedure is waaay too complicated. Screw 'em.)