Economics of the Commons

• trend towards institutionalization, professionalization of inner core

  • foundations to handle money (FSF, Apache, Mozilla, Blender, etc)
  • companies funding projects for strategic purposes (Sun: OpenOffice, AOL: Mozilla)
  • industry associations to directly employ open source leaders (Torvalds works for Open Source Development Lab)
  • new (non-profit) ventures with seed money from large foundations