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free-software-is-serious-business [2019/11/10 19:35]
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free-software-is-serious-business [2019/11/11 10:25]
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| ====== 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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| ==== Strategy ==== | ==== Strategy ==== |
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| === Create your own level playing field === | > **Create your own level playing field** |
| | //"Never innovate to compete, innovate to change the rules of the game."// \\ ― David O. Adeife |
| //"Never innovate to compete, innovate to change the rules of the game."// \\ \\ ― David O. Adeife | ---- |
| | > **Think big, act small** |
| === Think big, act small === | //"Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread like viruses do."// \\ ― Malcolm Gladwell, [[wp>The_Tipping_Point|The Tipping Point]]: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. |
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| //"Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread like viruses do."// \\ \\ ― Malcolm Gladwell, [[wp>The_Tipping_Point|The Tipping Point]]: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. | > ** Learn by doing** |
| | //“An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.”// \\ ― Ernst F. Schumacher, [[wp>Small_Is_Beautiful|Small Is Beautiful]]: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered. |
| === Learn by doing === | ---- |
| | > **Rely on your compass** |
| //“An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.”// \\ \\ ― Ernst F. Schumacher, [[wp>Small_Is_Beautiful|Small Is Beautiful]]: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered. | |
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| === Rely on your compass === | |
| // “Liberty and Justice for All.”// | // “Liberty and Justice for All.”// |
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| === Have hope and courage, be realistic === | > **Have hope and courage, be realistic** |
| | //"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."// \\ ― Václav Havel |
| //"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."// \\ \\ ― Václav Havel | ---- |
| | > **Be confident** |
| === Be confident === | |
| //FOSS now is the dominating software development paradigm.// | //FOSS now is the dominating software development paradigm.// |
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| * Proprietary software vendors are fighting an uphill battle. | * Proprietary software vendors are fighting an uphill battle. |
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