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This is not directly related to the contribution, but to the general
topic.
I once read a book Liberal Communism, by Dominique Pelbois.
Innovative in this utopian scheme, was the integration of consumers in
the decision-making process of enterprises. In other words, they would
be co-owned by producers and consumers.
I think that this is a very valid point. The community in free
software should not just be those that contribute, but those that use
it. This avoids any selfishness in policy making. The market then
becomes the internal dialogue of the community, rather than an external
impersonal mechanism.
In June, when I will start thinking about a governance process for the
p2p foundation, I will certainly strive to integrate the community of
users, into the governance process.
Michel
Markus <markus vodes.net> wrote: there are two issues here:
1), who should get something and how much in the case of the mozilla
foundation;
2), whether there should be a "killer application" open source software
to
the benefit of the whole community; not owned by a private entity but by
representatives of the community. now, i see this list as an appropriate
(because its long term) forum to pose this question.
dont get paid) yet they dont get anything back.
That's bullshit. They get back improvements and bugfixes to firefox,
as for 1), true and defenitely you have a valid point. you very well can
be satisfied with this. and given the upfront investment of aol this
seems
indeed fair. however, i have to admit that my desire to see open source
successful something has a negative impact on my objectivity. apologies.
luckily there are people like you who reveal this.
regarding 2, personally, i believe that a browser with such revenue
potential could be of much more help to the overall success of open
source. but i see that not many inhere share this believe. perhaps over
time ill see if im wrong. right now im stubborn.
paid for by the ad revenue and donations. 40(?) members of staff don't
work for free you know.
i specifically mentioned the beta testers and not the 35 staff members of
the mozilla for-profit corporation. as i said, i asked for some insight
how many people (beta tester, people who write translations, extenstions
etc) invest their time into the development of mozilla for no exchange of
money.
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