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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."
...but without the paycheck.
That's disconcertingly close to what I actually do.
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They can invent "Open Bankruptcy" next. Call me when they reach "Open Assets Selloff" by the creditors.
What? Too cynical? Is that even possible anymore?
Or cloudsourcing. No. Crowdcomputing? Wait... Clouds of crowds sourcing computers?
I bet the have no janitor...
Slashdot introduced its notion of karma, earned for activities perceived to promote group effectiveness, an approach that has been very influential in later virtual communities.
So, to get paid more, you just say that Apple did it better and the Microsoft's version sucks and the best implementation is in Linux?
And to get vacation do you post stuff to get "Funny" ratings like; "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of e-editors" or "In Soviet Russia the e-Editor you!" and then there's the "All your e-Editors are belong to us!"
Yep, the Open Business, sounds like a great way for the Karma whore to make a living!
Hey dude, there's no bosses around here. Giving orders is like uncool, man.
Only three things are certain; death, taxes, and apocryphal quotations - Ben Franklin.
I'll read your "history book" when you watch my "documentary."
very easy to set up, just outsource all the low paying stuff to contractors
Oh boy, a text editor with all the quality and accuracy of a Wikipedia article. I can't wait for the first edit war between two high-ranking programmers.
Chelloveck
I give up on debugging. From now on, SIGSEGV is a feature.
Social Darwinism is a propaganda tool used by conservatives to maintain the current power structure.
I'm confused... I thought conservatives reject Darwinism in favor of Creationism.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
You mean Steve Jobs salary and everybody else's.
Let me know how that works out, especially when what you are smoking runs out.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Ideally, Ben and Jerry would have found a qualified CEO that would have the same love of ice cream that they have.
Yes. We need more qualified 4-year-olds.