https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/dialogue-with-wim-nusselder-on-quarternary-economics-and-p2p/2006/02/20 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 08 Sep 2014 08:33:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/dialogue-with-wim-nusselder-on-quarternary-economics-and-p2p/2006/02/20/comment-page-1#comment-375 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 02:50:46 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.com/?p=95#comment-375 […] This entry is inspired by a presentation in Standblog on purpose-driven software projects, which in turn refers to Tim O’Reilly’s take on purpose-driven media, and the notion of asymmetric competition from Frank Hecker. The latter is a very interesting description of the nature of competition between a for-profit player Microsoft and a purpose-driven player, the Mozilla Foundation. In summary: they’re is a new kind of player, for whom profit is secondary to purpose, and when a traditional for-profit company has to compete with them, this competition is asymmetric, since the different players follow different rules. These are important new concepts that can be put in a broader context of a shift to quarternary economics, of which peer production is a part. I strongly recommend you read the previous 3 contributions in full as well. Here’s my own take on it. In a previous entry, I have presented the evolutionary account of economic life, as presented by Wim Nusselder, which describes the current emergence of a quarternary economics, based less on the quest for profit than on ideological leadership. The following quote summarizes this view: […]

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