I have published an article in the January 2008 Canadian “Open Source Business Resource”, a site which promotes open source based business models. It has an excellent archive of articles mediating the understanding of open communities with the needs of OS-based companies. For those familiar with my modelling work, this is a good summary of both the triarchy (sharism, commonism, crowdsourcing) and the polarity-based understanding which compares corporate-led models from community-led business models.

For access to the article: http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/article/view/494/458

Here is the address for access to the whole of the current issue.

OSBR is part of the Talent First Network, a Ontario-based policy network initiative which:

“enables the transfer of (i) open source technology, (ii) knowledge about competing in open environments, and (iii) talented students with skills in the commercialization of open source assets from academic institutions to Ontario™s companies and open source communities.”