Eric writes:
The first public version of `The Magic Cauldron’, the third
paper in the sequence that began with `The Cathedral and the
Bazaar’ and continued with `Homesteading the Noosphere’ is now
available at
This paper focuses on economics and the `How do I make money at
this?’ question. It includes some debunking of conventional myths
about software production economics, a qualitative game-theoretic
analysis explaining the stability of open-source cooperation, a
taxonomy of open-source business models, and a general theory of
when to be closed and when to be open.