Toward the Open Company

Arto Stimms writes "The author of the e text editor is using the principles of open source to transform his company into an Open Company. Not only is he releasing the source, the company itself becomes totally open: no concept of bosses or employees. Anyone can join in at any time, doing whatever task they find interesting, for whatever time they find appropriate. This is in service of the idea of 'the real freedom zero': the freedom to decide for yourself what you want to work on."

Comments

communism

[Em Emalb]

-1 flamebait.

But seriously. how do you expect to make a profit? Why form a company?

nothing to see here, move along.

Re:Seriously.. has no one read Atlas Shrugged

[Hillgiant]

Go Galt already, asshole. I'm tired of your incessant whining.

Re:I don't think it will work...

[Zero__Kelvin]

"I know by your handle this is going to fall on deaf ears but:"

You can tell by his handle that his CB radio won't pick up your Slashdot post? I can make that determination with zero knowledge of his handle. You aren't one of these guys who elicits someones IP address by asking "What's your 20" are you?

It is called a SlashID. Learn the terminology. Then learn to tolerate the terminology. Eventually you will love the terminology (OK ... I concede that I may have gotten carried away just a bit with that last one). ;-)

"And when the production isn't an assembly line anymore and becomes this complex web of people who do jobs which effects are near impossible to quantify , well I would say hugely differing salaries are not as defensible." [Emphasis added]

You say that like it is a foregone conclusion that you cannot quantify effort unless goods are produced. Compare and contrast my contributions the the Linux Kernel with Linus Torvalds' to see the folly in this assumption ;-)