Re: [ox-en] Re: Business opportuities based on Free Software
- From: Michael Bouwens <michelsub2003 yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 20:19:29 -0700 (PDT)
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What Per described has been called the 'Patronage Economy', see
http://p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Patronage_economy
I've collected some material on the funding issue on http://p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Peer_Production_-_Funding
Please note, in response to the 'just do it' suggestion of Christoph, that this is an alternative Wikipedia. Only, I don't think it makes sense to duplicate an already successfull effort using 'neutrality', but rather, that it can be complemented by specialized wiki's who do not need to confirm to NPOV but can take a particular interpretation, such as in this case, from a bias towards participation.
Why not do something similar with the Oekonux body of knowledge, and cross-referencing our mutual insights, as a start from an even broader effort with other partners?
Michel
Christoph Reuss <crox iac-research.ch> wrote: Per I. Mathisen wrote yesterday:
There is another option, which is having users donate money, hardware and
bandwidth. That is what Wikipedia is doing. The Bomis people are nowhere
rich enough to fund Wikipedia on their own. Companies such as Yahoo and
Answers.com are contributing funds and/or servers and bandwidth.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers/hardware_orders
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Budget/2005
Lots of other projects get along well this way, too. I think we can safely
say that most open source projects have some kind of corporate
sponsorship, either through using services at sourceforge or some other
OSS services site, or directly by donations. Some sites, like sunsite, I
think, are government sponsored as well.
More could probably be done to obtain government sponsorship of socially
valuable projects like sourceforge to avoid relying on the whim of
corporations.
Very interesting. This suggests that a "KingJimbo-free" fork could be done
even without introducing ads! So let's do it. ;-)
Chris
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