[p2p-research] updated Business Models wiki section

[Samuel Rose]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Alex Rollin <alex.rollin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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'.

It's funny that you mention this. In 2009 I started using the phrase
"Wealth generating ecology" in place of "Open Business Model" to try
and give a more effective description of what I am talking about with
"open business" or "commons-based business" models.

Although, I suppose one could argue that "Business" is not always a
pursuit of "wealth generation"....

I still think this resembles across worldviews the core activity that
people are pursuing in relation to what most are referring to as
"open" or "commons based" business models.

>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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