A discussion of hybrid open source and proprietary licensing models.

[Marshall Van Alstyne <marshall AT MIT.EDU>]

At 04:01 PM 9/16/2004, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote:
> However, a few projects have been bogged down with various IP
> questions... like, how and where do you patent something that has been
> designed by people in a dozen different IP regimes?  Do you open
> source it from the start... even if there is high potential for
> capitalization (like the eyeglasses)?
>
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:50:46 +0100, Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com> wrote:
> > http://thinkcycle.org/
> >
> > "ThinkCycle seeks to create a culture of open source design innovation, 
> with ongoing collaboration among individuals, communities and 
> organizations around the world."

There's actually an interesting mechanism from cooperative game theory 
called the Shapley Value (pronounced Shaa' -plee) that tries to get at the 
marginal values brought to the table by collections of resources.  It tries 
to address the question of how much does each individual resource 
contribute to the whole project.

I can try to provide a bit of a writeup if anyone's interested.  A not too 
terrible description is 
here:  http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Shapley%20value

MVA