This category is for P2P business models. Articles should emphasize P2P dynamics.

Introduction

Key Concepts

Open Business Models (in general)

1. Open Business ; Open Business Models
2. Commons-Based Business Models ; Business Models for the Commons

See also:

1. Crowdfunding

Open Software Business Models

1. Open Core Business Model
2. Open Source Business Models
3. Open_Source_Software_Business_Models
4. Open Source Software Service Model
5. Free_Software_Business_Models
6. Open Source Software - Business Aspects
7. Open Source Commercialization
8. Open_Source_as_Business_Strategy

Open Hardware Business Models

1. Open Source Hardware Business Models
2. Open_Hardware_Business_Models

Open Media Business Models

1. Business Models to Support Content Commons
2. Open Access Publishing Income Models
3. Open Music Business Models
4. Open Film Business Models
5. Social_Media_Business_Models

Related Categories

1. Crowdfunding Music Crowdfunding
2. Peer Funding
3. Peer Property
4. Commons

Citations

Openness requires Sharing

"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."

- Sam Rose, June 2010

Key Resources

Key Articles

Two classic essays are:

1. Frank Hecker. Setting Up Shop
2. Bruno Perens. The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source

Also:

1. Value Derived from Open Source is a Function of Maturity Levels: excellent presentation with many overview tables
2. Sustainability of FLOSS-Based economic models presentation by Carlo Daffara which focuses on the role of firms.
3. Open Source Software and the Private-Collective Innovation Model. Eric von Hippel and Georg von Krogh

Recommended Resources by Tony Bailetti:

1. Open Source is not a Business Model
2. Open Source Business Model is "Broken". Really?
3. Open Source: The Model is Broken
4. Licensing and Business Models
5. What Vendors Really Mean by Open Source
6. Clarifying Business Models: Origins, Present and Future of the Concept

Report:

1. New Economic Models, New Software Industry Economy. By RTNL, the French National Network for Software Technologies.

Book chapters:

1. Economics of open source, at http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262562278chap3.pdf
2. Open source as user innovation – von Hippel, at http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262562278chap14.pdf
3. Analysis of OS Business models, at http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262562278chap15.pdf
4. Allocation of resources in OS mode, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262562278chap16.pdf
5. Open Source as a Business Strategy, by Brian Behlendorf, at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/brian.html

Other Research:

1. Appropriating the Commons: Firms in Open Source Software. Linus Dahlander.
2. Open Source and the software industry. How firms do business out of an open innovation paradigm. By Andrea Bonaccorsi, Monica Merito, Cristina Rossi, Lucia Piscitello.

Cases:

1. Mozilla/Apache case studies, at http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262562278chap10.pdf
2. Microsoft shared source, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262562278chap17.pdf

Key Books

• The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing Lisa Gansky. Portfolio / Penguin Group, FALL 2010
• What's Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption, by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers (Fall, HarperCollins), 2010

Key Courses

1. Economic Aspects of Free Software : free course from the Free Technology Academy of the Free Knowledge Institute [1]

Key Podcasts / Webcasts

1. Mark Shuttleworth on the Business Ecology of Ubuntu
2. Business Models for the Commons: Panel at the Wizard of OS 2006 conference: Video [2] and Audio [3]
3. SXSW Talk on Commons-Based Business Models