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[Fsfe-france] Re: The Community is the Company
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loic |
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[Fsfe-france] Re: The Community is the Company |
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Thu, 24 May 2001 04:43:58 +0200 |
I'm not FreeDevelopers educated enough to answer you. Tony
could you explain why it could work ?
Cheers,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o?= Miguel Neves writes:
> >
> > http://209.249.55.157/company/CommCo/
> >
> [Warning: I'm a Computer engineer who has taken a few business classes
> and helps somes companies top level management understand their
> systems.]
>
> It's interesting as an idea, but solely as that. This won't work. The
> reason why free software has worked so well so far is the connection
> between users and developers: the user is the develloper. Even
> Microsoft, who is usually accused of not listening to its customers has
> the biggest usability labs in the world (yes, one of the reasons word
> has so many features is that they put "everything" in it the usability
> labs tell them to).
>
> Now, if you believe Microsoft is not a sucessful company, from not only
> a financial view, but also from a political/advocacy point of view, then
> ignore this.
>
> The structure they propose is not different from proprietary software
> companies, it's just like them, but like the ones who were beaten up by
> MS. I believe this proposal was done with the best of intentions, but it
> has no way to survive, at least not in the big picture.
>
> BTW I believe it's impossible to have a single entity doing the role
> proposed for freedevelopers.net. Can someone explain me why, on a
> networked world, someone proposes a single entity point of access ?
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