I noticed a serious problem with "credit attribution" and allowing members to "branch outside" of the mother project.
For example, there may be a collection of contributions, from many members, that is worth $C in the consortium. Suppose someone decides to start an external project, then adding $c of new contributions to it, but where $c is unknown because it's outside the consortium's attributing system. Then, suppose the new project sells a million copies and earns $NetProfit. $NetProfit may be a very big amount because of leverage / nonlineae effects. The *fair* amount to pay back the consortium should be $PayBack = $NetProfit * ($C / ($C + $c)). Unfortunately, $c occurs outside the consortium and cannot be measured easily or consistently. Not being to estimate the $PayBack, the whole scheme is thrown into question. Also, using an approximate formula for $PayBack may not work since people will try to exploit the approximation to their advantage. It seems that allowing members to "check out" is very difficult, if not impossible, to manage. The only alternative that's left is to restrict members to participate and develop projects within the consortium *exclusively*... but this will turn off many people as they don't see why the consortium will win instead of other projects... and this is the problem faced by all AGI founders trying to recruit... YKY ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
