[P2P-F] Fwd: Seven Pillars Of Open Companies ( ? )

Mon May 30 09:21:23 CEST 2011

thanks Dante!

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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, May 29, 2011 at 8:11 PM
Subject: Seven Pillars Of Open Companies ( ? )
To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>

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.

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