...c'est l'Open Source !

From Wikipedia, which seemed appropriate for this post, a definition and an English lesson:

Open source denotes that the origins of a product are publicly accessible in part or in whole. When used as an adjective, the term is hyphenated: "Apache is open-source software." When used as a noun, there is no hyphen: "Netscape released its Navigator source code as open source."

Will the same model work in economics? On the sidebar of this site there is a section entitled “Open-Source” models (I added the hyphen this evening). There are four models there, one by Mark Thoma (me), one by Alex Tabarrok, and two from Brad DeLong. The models are on a variety of topics, in different stages of development, and have both classroom and research orientations. (...)