Keyword: Excludability (was: [ox-en] Oekonux introduction)
- From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
- Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:55:05 +0100
Keyword: Excludability
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Term to classify goods
* Excludable: Others can be excluded from using a good
* Matching legal concept: property
* Can be cast onto everything
* Can be hard to maintain though
For instance: Information goods in Internet age
* Necessary to create scarcity
* Non-excludable: Others can not be excluded from using it
* Anything which can not be private property?
* Non-excludable goods are often public goods
For instance: Roads
* Each market is based on excludable goods
* Free Software made non-excludable by the license
* Chance of contributions rises when more people use it
* Regardless of how many "free ride"
.. admonition:: Conclusion
GPL society: Extending principles of Free Software to rival goods
while dropping exclusion
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