A New Spin on Open Source Business Models

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 23, 2006 @05:35PM from the coopetition dept.

IT Managers Journal is reporting that a Canadian communications student is trying to put a new spin on open source business models. Greg Dean, a student at Simon Fraser University, is attempting to merge the principles of open source with that of a co-op and a regular corporation. From the article: "On the first slide of his presentation, Dean described the ICT/OS as a 'participatory, self-managed workers' business' designed for 'getting the benefits of a corporation through the convivial democracy of a co-op.' Punctuated by dozens of questions, the rest of the presentation explained exactly how he thought this goal could be achieved. In his vision, the co-op would involve three types of members: full members, who are freelancers in high-tech professions and have full voting rights; associated members such as lawyers who provide services to the co-op; and non-members with an investment in the company."

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Save you the pain by zitintheass · 2006-10-23 19:06 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Stay away from open source and free software as far as you can, because business and OSS is pretty much like matter and anti-matter.
Re:Sure he's not a Canadian Communism Student? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-23 20:23 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Communism only killed 100 million people, lets give it another chance.