Comments on: The cooptation of user participation http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-cooptation-of-user-participation/2009/09/29 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:37:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sivam Krish http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-cooptation-of-user-participation/2009/09/29/comment-page-1#comment-458040 Sivam Krish Fri, 24 Dec 2010 22:15:32 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=5110#comment-458040 Excellent perspective. I am increasing seeing co-creation as a way to enable marginal divergence in saturated product markets, that allows companies to access niches that were previous too small or two closed or niches that they had no access to. It is in a way of market enlargement. Also there seems to be a fundamental difference between co-created software (many of them are open sourced) and co-created products. Products require a manufacturing base for realization and it can be owned. Software seems not to need that, but often distinction is not made. Excellent perspective. I am increasing seeing co-creation as a way to enable marginal divergence in saturated product markets, that allows companies to access niches that were previous too small or two closed or niches that they had no access to. It is in a way of market enlargement.

Also there seems to be a fundamental difference between co-created software (many of them are open sourced) and co-created products. Products require a manufacturing base for realization and it can be owned. Software seems not to need that, but often distinction is not made.

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