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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 <cc-bizcom AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Cc-bizcom] ThinkCycle
  • Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:52:47 -0400

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




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