[p2p-research] updated Business Models wiki section

[Alex Rollin]

Excellent points about sharing, Sam.  I had a brief discussion with Stefan
Meretz today about the vocabulary used in describing commons based models.
 I feel that this work around common characteristics of P2P systems can
somehow help us highlight the 'per model' similarities and differentials.

When you say that the unique aspect of each model is what can be shared I am
in definite agreement, and add that the particular sharing is also
indicative of that models particular relationship to one or more types of
commons.

In my earlier conversation with Stefan I was getting into semantics with the
word 'business' in the phrase 'commons based business model'.  I wouldn't
say that the workd 'business is necessarily particular helpful in describing
these operations, or that it is one of these important supporting concepts,
and yet our wiki doesn't yet have a way of helping folks to make a
connection between network rules, or protocol, and business.  I am hoping
that our efforts on the wiki will help to either find another word for
business or reclaim it while showing the work of that reclamation as open to
comment, whether those words are protocol, network rules, or something else.

I'm hoping that publishing his recent 'taxonomy of goods' to the wiki will
also help to bring out some of the commonalities and differences between
models at the level of 'commons-based'-whatever- in an effort to further
elaborate on these underlying concepts as support structures that are simply
remixed or emphasized in various ways when building up a model.

A note on process; I am collecting pages that explore the discussion around
classification of goods in the Thing Commons category.  This is related to
this discussion of concepts because, in one way of seeing it, each of the
Five Commons from the FF model is a distinct emphasis on or more concepts,
as opposed to and without diminishing, the others.
http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Thing_Commons

Alex





On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks to Alex for starting this section,
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Business_Models
> >
> >
> >
> > This category is for P2P business models. Articles should emphasize P2P
> dynamics.
> >
> > Contents
>
> This is cool.
>
> I was tracking this about 3-4 years ago with "Open Business Models
> Wiki", but I would readily agree P2P wiki is a better home.
>
> For whatever it is worth, my recent thinking about business models
> with the word "Open" in them is this:
>
> Business models that employ the word "Open" are really incomplete if
> they are solely focused on what happens with revenue (even if that
> focus is related to sharing of revenue).
>
> The part of the model that is unique to each business entity or group
> is: "what is shared?"
>
> Based on the questions "what is shared?", or "what can be shared?" the
> business model can evolve per business to include many types of
> sharing. This is mostly limited to what the participants are *willing*
> to share together as a group.
>
>
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