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Henri Poole of Affero On Online Trust

Posted by timothy on from the web-of-mutual-distrust dept.

Henri Poole writes "In the interview 'Trust Unlimited', Robert McMillan at LinuxPlanet asks Poole about the roots, current developments, and future of Affero's trust and commerce system. Poole talks about his work at the Well, Mandrakesoft's e-services initiative, and current work with LinuxQuestions, and covers topics of transportable reputations, gaming, profits, blogs, forums, independent media and the importance of independent perspectives and decentralized trust metrics in a democratic society."

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  1. Wow, neat Idea. by BrookHarty · · Score: 2, Insightful

    With searching of google newsgroups, and forums, I can finally say thanks for someones post who fixed my problem, even if the post was months/years old.

    Now, how about we add this to Slashcode! This is moderation on a whole new level. Very cool idea.

  2. How would this translate to getting a job by atlantageek · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This all sounds interesting. However what would be really useful is a way to translate this to a resume. The number of years in a certain language does not really translate well to being a good fit for a position. If working on open source projects and building a lot of OS Karma would help people get jobs then you would see a big rise in the quality and effort of open source projects.

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  3. Yeah, I did that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Launched with two other MandrakeSoft refugees in the summer of 2001, Affero is trying to build a standard system of reputation measurement for the Internet.

    Sounds like a project I worked on a while back. Except mine automatically gave a negative rating to anyone that claimed to be able to objectively rate every Internet user on the planet.

    Seriously though, who would pay any attention to something like this? Are there actually people out there that care if Joe from Texas gave them X for their "Internet rating?"

    Not to mention, if you haven't noticed that every community that uses a publically displayed "experience points" type system slowly dies a redundant, boring death as people continually spit out the same useless advice as fast as possible to receive their precious points. It seems to attract the bottom of the barrel, perhaps because people who are truly interested in the discussion don't need the "incentive" and go to serious forums.

  4. CEO for SALE by Syncroswitch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As the former CEO oif Mandrakesoft I cant take his article seriously. In the early stages of the linux community we saw a few well supported bleeding edge distros with focused objectives of what they wanted to accomplish. later linux boomed, and the big distros ate the smaller ones, then became complacent and generalized. Now (In the aftermath of the bursted bubble) we see an rampant growth in little, focused, and well supported distros,(www.distrowatch.com) while the lumbering giants beg for money, or try to sell us "Services". The Outgoing "linux execs" never had a clue, they dont understand that opensource will not evolve into corprate grey. Its a grassroots thing, always has been, always will be. Its powerful because of that. Henri was a leader amongst sellouts, so he is modded into /dev/null