P2P Foundation: Does peer production destroy profits?

This is a crucial statement, below: P2P Foundation  Does peer production destroy profits?

How true:  "In my own formulation it says that we now have a society, where the creation of use value grows exponentially, but the growth of monetization of this use value grows only linearly.."

THAT is the real challenge for next-generation media business models.

Another quote:  "Is this perhaps what is happening in the Linux economy, of which it is said that it creates about $36b, but also destroys about $60b in the value of proprietary companies..."

Your take?

Comments

[Steve Pasek]

Ah, yes, the inherent unsustainability of "free like beer" systems in the larger context of the macro-systems that make it possible for open-source to exist...please see my post on your Toffler quote for my estimation of this conundrum. (And believe me, I'm a supporter of open-source, more for its demand-based rather than marketing-based iteration process, which I think is not incompatible with pay-based development, it just doesn't support the same number of people on the development team, or on the sales force).