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…
The test for a good record is simple.
A buyer should be able to answer three questions in about a minute: do…
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.
The first is excludability: how easy it is to keep someone from using …