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Subject: A discussion of hybrid open source and proprietary licensing models.

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  • From: Marshall Van Alstyne <marshall AT MIT.EDU>
  • To: cc-bizcom AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Cc-bizcom] Greetings list!
  • Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:45:25 -0400

At 05:30 AM 9/16/2004, Rob Myers wrote:
>There is actually less and less of this kind of behavior because the
>publishers as a group are becoming more aware of the concept of shared
>utility. There's an economic incentive for them to collaborate - they
>all want to use each other's work. This is a social impetus, not a
>license-driven trend, and if someone proves a business model that shows
>disregarding the value of the "cathedral" makes money, it could be lost.
>But so far, the trend has been in a positive direction.

One of the stated aims of this list is to come up with an economic model for this sort of thing (I think, I'm not an economist). Do you think it's possible to quantify the effects of the OGL on WotC's revenue stream, or is that the wrong way of looking at the equation?

Let me echo Rob's observation here. We're definitely interested in quantifying/modeling dimensions of this.





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