CoasesPenguin

An analysis of FreeSoftware in terms of RonaldCoase's idea of TransactionCosts

• http://www.yale.edu/yalelj/112/BenklerWEB.pdf

Seems to be roughly a mixture of :

• TheAgeOfAmateurs and

• AlternativesToCompanies

For me, these ideas are pretty explicit in EricRaymond's work too. (That's where I got my inspiration from initially)

See also :

• OpenSource

• CoasesBlockChain

• TheFreeSoftwarePhenomenon

• TheMarketLogicOfInformation for PhilAgre's response to the Coasian idea.

• FreeSoftwareAndMarxism