Re: Fwd: Wall Street article on a new Cooperative

Taran Rampersad <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.misc.free-software-business
Message-ID <[email protected]>
L Jean Camp wrote:

>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> Avalanche Project
>> Is Clearing the Path
>> For Tech Cooperation
>> April 12, 2004; Page B1
>>
>> Co-ops have been a fact of life inU.S. agriculture for decades, with 
>> farmers banding together to solve common problems. Now, a group of 
>> computer chiefs at some of America's biggest companies are trying to 
>> do the same thing with technology.
>
OK. This is smart. This is something that many FSB folk have been trying 
to get businesses to buy into, though maybe not with the same sales 
pitch. There is a key difference, though: Timing.

SCO helped this case. Lindows helped this case. Perhaps even Lessig 
helped this case. Inadvertently, many of the people on the list helped 
this.  Is it the right time? Maybe.

Time will tell.

This is good news, because this means it's more likely niche markets 
will do the same.

In a few years, we may actually have sentience. But then the people on 
this list will be somewhere ahead again. :)

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Taran Rampersad

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