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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. Isn't it a little weird? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Henri Poole made the /. submission and talks about himself being interviewed in third-person?

    Does this make him a meta-karmawhore?

  2. 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.

  3. Re:What about the reverse by Telex4 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you feel you're worth it, you can get listed as a person.organising to donate to. Then people can give *you* money if they appreciate your work.

    So it's particularly useful for projects that need a small cash stream to keep going, and for developers that would like to do more Free Software work, but don't have the money/time to do so.

  4. 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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  5. 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