Debate rages at Simone’s blog. Well not really. I just keep writing long comments one after the other as new ideas strike me. This has kept my hippocampuses firing all day.
Simone doesn’t seem to think an Open Source model would produce quality songs.
Every open source product in existence would seem to disagree – but she’s also not sure how it would all work.
I had the following thought.
Open Source companies make money by offering support, some by performing specific development tasks and extensions for companies that request them. Here’s an article about how open source companies make money.
Basically it moves from a model where a product is provided to a model based on service.
I believe Open Source, when applied to computer software, produces better products than proprietary software.
So, an example of how a gifted song writer could make money/produce quality songs under the Open Source business model would be to produce songs upon request (and upon payment) by a particular church for a particular sermon series that they’re working on. Once it is used for that purpose it would then be added to the pool of songs for other churches to use.
Any other ideas?