[p2p-research] updated Business Models wiki section

[Alex Rollin]

Yes, that is Stefan's article.

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On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear alex,
>
> this is it right: http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons_-_Typology
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:18 AM, 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'.  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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