IT Manager's Journal: Merging Corporations with Co-Ops and Open Source
Oct 24, 2006, 21:00 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Bruce Byfield)
"Greg Dean, a communications student at Simon Fraser University
in Vancouver, Canada, has a new twist on open source business
models. For more than a year, Dean has been working with his
friends Devon Girard and Charles Latimer, as well as an unnamed
lawyer, to find a way to merge the concepts of a co-operative with
that of a corporation to create an open source company that he
currently calls the Information and Communications Technology/ Open
Source Co-op (ICT/OS). Recently, he spoke to the Vancouver PHP
Users' Group about the structure that he is starting to
implement.
"Co-operatives are democratically organized economic groups
established for purposes varying from housing to banking to
worker-run businesses. With a history dating back over two
centuries, they are a small but enduring part of many industrial
economies; according to Dean, co-ops account for 12% of businesses
in Canada and 5% in the United States..."
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