Tools for Thought - The Economics of Open Source Production

Open source software is a non excludible resource. Down loading the code doesn't really make it more costly for me. The analogue and tools for thought is, once i publish that paper on the great idea i had in muse, this is a non-exCLUDable resources out there. And so one way to think about this that she suggests ropen source, that i'm pursuing now, is we should think about funding production rather than funding consumption.