Dear friends,
Over the years it has been fairly easy to find material on the institutional set-up of free software and open content production, which usually combines a community with commons, a for-benefit association, and a enterpreneurial coalition as very common and identifiable structure
However, even though I have watched the open hardware field, and there is some material on its business models (http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Business_Models), I feel there is a real dearth of material on the institutional setups ..
So, we know there are productive communities and firms, but what about the equivalent of FLOSS Foundations?
Thanks for any light that you as insiders can shed on this,
Michel Bauwens
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