thanks Dante!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dante-Gabryell Monson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Sun, May 29, 2011 at 8:11 PM<br>Subject: Seven Pillars Of Open Companies ( ? )<br>To: Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br><h1 style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">
<a href="http://www.pietrust.com/openCompany.html" target="_blank">http://www.pietrust.com/openCompany.html</a></h1>
<h1 style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">Seven Pillars Of Open Companies</h1><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">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.</p>
<ul style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><li>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)</li>
<li>contributors can work on what they choose, for as much or as little time as they choose</li><li>contributors, as a whole, get a significant cut of the profits</li><li>contributors, as a whole, get a significant proportion of the votes in project governance</li>
<li>corporate transparency: information about financial matters and other material issues is shared with contributors</li><li>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</li>
<li>intellectual property is open sourced, according to the Open Source Institute's definition of the term, within 3 years of its creation</li></ul><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">
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.</p>
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