Notes about the "Coase's Penguin" Paper

The following are notes taken during my reading of Yochai Benkler's paper "Coase's Penguin".

Some references:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem
• http://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.html
• http://www.yale.edu/yalelj/112/BenklerWEB.pdf
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yochai_Benkler

The President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee
recommended that the federal government support open source software as
a strategic national choice to sustain the U.S. lead in critical software
development:
http://www.ccic.gov/pubs/pitac/pres-oss-11sep00.pdf.


"Coase introduced the concept of "transaction costs", which are costs associated with defining and enforcing property and contract rights and which are a necessary incident of organizing any activity on a market model"

How will guard the guards

How to find balance between protecting and restricting.