[Slightly OT] Ransomware as a Model for Rev Toolmaking?

[david bovill]

It's always refreshing to come back to this list.

I've been on a journey exploring financial models for open source and 
Creative Commons content creation and community building... currently 
involved in applying the concepts talked about here to open software 
and digital film and video content production.

And of course Revolution is the heart of this for me - the Revolution 
will not be Televised - currently playing :)

The ransom model is one way of phrasing this, while there is much talk 
in Creative Commons circles of "alternative compensation systems". For 
my part I prefer the term "commissioning currencies" or "creative 
currencies" - these are secure digital currencies which can be used in 
complex collaborations designed ultimately to create open software, 
while in the process ensuring that developers get paid or at least a 
fair slice of any revenues that the project creates.

I am currently in Vienna and working for a new startup Community TV 
Station with parallels to Current TV in the states (launching August 
1st). Over the next 2 months we will be working to embed a secure 
currency framework within Revolution to allow just this sort of 
collaboration.

Currencies are not the only element required to make this work, a 
robust legal framework (based on LLP or LLC partnership models) 
combined with good project management infrastructure is also needed to 
avoid dilution of value (quality) and an open but legally robust 
dispute resolution framework are also needed if this sort of 
collaboration is to seriously facilitate quality software or creative 
content production.

Continue the  thread!