Found on slashdot:
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue6_6/rasch/index.html
"In their article "The Street Performer Protocol and Digital Copyrights"
(Kelsey and Schneier, 1999) suggest that copyright will become increasingly
difficult to enforce. They propose a general mechanism for funding digital
public works, the "Street Performer Protocol" in which authors produce
their work only after they receive enough contributions to make it worth
their while. In this article, I sketch out a proposal for the creation of a
software completion bond market. I think such a market would be a practical
implementation of the "Street Performer Protocol" for the funding of open
source software. I first describe how such a bond market might work, and
why I think the open source community needs a bond market. Then I examine
the underlying economics of open source software. Finally, I review some of
the existing and potential alternatives to a software completion bond market. "
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