4. The Magic Cauldron
- In the Magic Cauldron, ESR "analyses the evolving economic substrate of the open-source phenomenon"
- He explains why releasing a software as open-source and keeping the modifications open is a rational thing to do.
- He also shows that the open-source world is "stable" (from the game-theoretical sense)
- 4.1. The Magic of the Open-Source World
- 4.2. Use Value and Sale Value
- 4.3. The Inverse Commons Model
- 4.4. Case Studies
- 4.5. Business and Open-Source