Michel Bauwens at P2P Foundation has reposted an argument from Ryan Lanham about the need for universities to become more P2P. There has been notable debate on the P2P mailing list regarding this topic. From the blog post:
Most p2p firms–an intermediate animal in my view–exist by leveraging investment in knowledge creation–what you say is a plausible mission of universities. Google, for instance, or Craig’s List or Ebay…all p2p to one extent or another. Facilitating p2p is not a likely long-term facility for garnering cash flows because efficiencies of knowledge arise. That is why Microsoft is starting to die…they didn’t anticipate cloud computing and more p2p models like the evolution of Linux.
