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free-software-is-serious-business [2019/11/10 19:35]
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free-software-is-serious-business [2019/11/10 19:38]
admin [Designing a Libre Business Model] |
| ====== Free Software is Serious Business ====== | ====== Free Software is Serious Business ====== |
| By [[mailto:rijkr@datraverse.com|Rijk Ravestein]] - Owner of Datraverse. | By [[rijkr@datraverse.com|Rijk Ravestein]] - Owner of Datraverse. |
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| ===== Introduction ===== | ===== Introduction ===== |
| //The Libre Business Model is an application of Free Software Design Patterns.// | //The Libre Business Model is an application of Free Software Design Patterns.// |
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| * Concepts like Decentralization, Peer-to-Peer, Distribution and Confederation are ingrained into Free Software Design and considered best practice to let users optimally exercise their freedom. \\ \\ -> //“With Free Software users control their own computer instead of being controlled by their computer.”// | * Concepts like Decentralization, Peer-to-Peer, Distribution and Confederation are ingrained into Free Software Design and considered best practice to let users optimally exercise their freedom. \\ \\ -> //“With Free Software users control their own computer instead of being controlled by their computer.”// \\ \\ |
| * Likewise, a Libre Business Model is designed as a distributed federation of small business units, or individual professionals, who cooperate peer-to-peer to accomplish well defined Free Software community targets. \\ \\ -> //“In a Libre Business Model partners run their own business instead of being run by their business.”// | * Likewise, a Libre Business Model is designed as a distributed federation of small business units, or individual professionals, who cooperate peer-to-peer to accomplish well defined Free Software community targets. \\ \\ -> //“In a Libre Business Model partners run their own business instead of being run by their business.”// \\ \\ |
| * A distributed design facilitates fail-over capability. Partners can take over each others work when one of them is unavailable. This makes Free Software Support sustainable. | * A distributed design facilitates fail-over capability. Partners can take over each others work when one of them is unavailable. This makes Free Software Support sustainable. \\ \\ |
| * The Libre Business Model leans heavily on a [[wp>Web_of_trust|Web-of-Trust]]. By achieving common business goals, trust among federated partners will be extended and reinforced. \\ \\ -> //Trust is the most valuable equity of a Free Software community.// | * The Libre Business Model leans heavily on a [[wp>Web_of_trust|Web-of-Trust]]. By achieving common business goals, trust among federated partners will be extended and reinforced. \\ \\ -> //Trust is the most valuable equity of a Free Software community.// \\ \\ |
| * [[http://www.melconway.com/Home/Conways_Law.html|Conway's Law]] states that "organizations produce designs whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure". Restated by Eric S Raymond, "the organization of the software and the organization of the software team will be congruent". \\ \\ -> //The Libre Business Model is congruent with Free Software Design Patterns.// | * [[http://www.melconway.com/Home/Conways_Law.html|Conway's Law]] states that "organizations produce designs whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure". Restated by Eric S Raymond, "the organization of the software and the organization of the software team will be congruent". \\ \\ -> //The Libre Business Model is congruent with Free Software Design Patterns.// |
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