A model for your nonprofit to support itself and continue creating contents at almost no cost is to take projects at a broader community level by letting volunteer experts contribute online. This is basically the Wikipedia way for generating free content. For sure, a drawback of this model, is that the content may not always be of the highest standard. Nonetheless, the nonprofit may raise funds by touting the value of the product to potential donors all over the Internet to cover much lower operational costs than in the current model.
On another hand, your question made me wonder the following: In efforts to reconcile open source and Intellectual Property Rights what is most important? To make the content free of the delivery format of this free?
So far it is a bit difficult to foretell if HP’s strategy to promote its tablets will be a springboard for the company to position itself better on the market. However, I think, that will at least contribute to increase customers’ appetite for tablets. Digital content providers could take advantage of this situation, but I doubt they will in the short term. The reason is that the HP’s tablet has a main drawback, the discontinuation of the product. Users will unlikely receive any update for their applications in the future. That translates into a value proposition of Less-for-Much-Less. So, many digital magazines and other content providers will prudently wait for feedback of users experience before initiating important investments.
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Hi Mel,
A model for your nonprofit to support itself and continue creating contents at almost no cost is to take projects at a broader community level by letting volunteer experts contribute online. This is basically the Wikipedia way for generating free content. For sure, a drawback of this model, is that the content may not always be of the highest standard. Nonetheless, the nonprofit may raise funds by touting the value of the product to potential donors all over the Internet to cover much lower operational costs than in the current model.
On another hand, your question made me wonder the following: In efforts to reconcile open source and Intellectual Property Rights what is most important? To make the content free of the delivery format of this free?
Nouhoun
So far it is a bit difficult to foretell if HP’s strategy to promote its tablets will be a springboard for the company to position itself better on the market. However, I think, that will at least contribute to increase customers’ appetite for tablets. Digital content providers could take advantage of this situation, but I doubt they will in the short term. The reason is that the HP’s tablet has a main drawback, the discontinuation of the product. Users will unlikely receive any update for their applications in the future. That translates into a value proposition of Less-for-Much-Less. So, many digital magazines and other content providers will prudently wait for feedback of users experience before initiating important investments.