The Tragedy of the Anticommons
I have start reading Janet Hope’s book Biobazaar that basically asks if the open source approach can do for biotechnology what it has done for information technology. So far it is an excellent read!
The book has introduced me to the idea of the Tragedy of the Anticommons as opposed to the more traditional theory of the Tragedy of the Commons.
I am looking forward to thinking about during the next couple of weeks to what extent the theory of the anticommons is plausible and if so whether it can be applied the information technology setting. And as usual there is already a lot of good stuff available on the topic freely accesible at the net (e.g. The Anticommons Problem, theory and practice).
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