thanks Dante! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <[email protected]> Date: Sun, May 29, 2011 at 8:11 PM Subject: Seven Pillars Of Open Companies ( ? ) To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> http://www.pietrust.com/openCompany.html Seven Pillars Of Open Companies Different people have different ideas about what the term "Open Company" should mean, so here's what it means to us. This page is a work in progress. - almost anyone can contribute, without getting prior permission ("almost" leaves room for disallowing illegal situations, disallowing people you really don't want for whatever reason, and expulsion for bad behavior) - contributors can work on what they choose, for as much or as little time as they choose - contributors, as a whole, get a significant cut of the profits - contributors, as a whole, get a significant proportion of the votes in project governance - corporate transparency: information about financial matters and other material issues is shared with contributors - intellectual property, including "source code", is visible to contributors and customers, and is made freely available for use, modification, and redistribution for non-profit uses, at the initial full-scale "launch" of any product in which it is incorporated - intellectual property is open sourced, according to the Open Source Institute's definition of the term, within 3 years of its creation PieTrust goes further than the above in many ways; in PieTrust, the plan is for contributors to get a majority share of the profits and a majority of the votes, and for software to be open sourced within 2 years of its creation. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens