A discussion of hybrid open source and proprietary licensing models.

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

Andrea, actually, this is something I wish were better taught and for
which there would be a good bibliography.  The closest thing I've
seen is an article by Hal Varian (same guy who wrote "Information
Rules" with Carl Shapiro).  The article is 

"How to write an economic model in your spare time." 

www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/how.pdf


Cheers,
MVA

At 02:03 PM 9/30/2004, you wrote:
> Hi Marshall,
>
> >>>>> "Marshall" == Marshall W Van Alstyne <Marshall> writes:
>
>     > Let me take a stab at distinguishing between two diff types of
>     > models.
>
> [SNIP] (but really interesting stuff)
>
>     > So, I'm optimistic that even if we can't get data immediately,
>     > then we can use models of one type or another to boldly go where
>     > no one has gone before :)
>
> Could you suggest a basic bibliography for someone who wants to start
> studying economical modeling?  
>
> Feel free to post your answer on the list, I didn't post my question
> there because I was not sure how interesting it could be.