Open Source projects have spent decades asking companies to contribute.Projects should also give buyers the information they need to reward the companies that do.…
The 60-second procurement test
Any Open Source project with a commercial or institutional funding eco…
An Open Source project contains several economic goods.Its code, infrastructure, services, maintainer time, and commercial ecosystem each behave differently.…
Open Source is four kinds of economic goods
Treating all of them as a single commons hides who pays today, who con…
Economists often classify goods along two dimensions.