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Economics of the Commons

  • mixed economies:

    • no payment (volunteers)
    • indirect payment (students, professors)
    • direct payment (programmers working in companies that use but do not sell software)
    • donation (of hardware, server space etc.)
    • commercial and community versions (zope)
    • community financing (koro5hin, open access journals)
    • "Posser method" (scientific journals)