Many people we talk to in our daily work sometimes struggle to understand how, in business, concepts such as Free, Open Source and Creative Commons can actually work in an economic sense.

On the 8th January 2009 BBC Radio 4's "In Business" programme aired on this very subject of Free. In this 25 minute documentary entitled Free For All, Peter Day investigates the new economy of Free, looking at Open Source Software and Creative Commons Licensing.

"Maybe there are better ways of doing business than charging users for goods and services. But is it really profitable to give products away? Peter Day hears from two advocates of business models that turn conventional wisdom on its head."

See http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/resources/articles/the-economics-of-free.html for more information, including links to the podcast of the programme and to a transcript.