“Being an advocate of the open source software movement for some time, I’m wondering how and if the principles of open source software could be applied to a new type of open source business. In a world where people slave away for the sole profit of a board of directors and merciless shareholders, is there room for a new type of organization that throws away the archaic and monolithic organizational structure of today and from there form a company that has its direction dictated by all of the members that run it. An organization where everyone has an equal say in what goes on. There isn’t any limit on how many people can be involved (the more the better, in fact) as long as they can be useful. Could this be the way of the future?”
This is one of the very interesting topics related to open source that have been discussed by many advocates of the open source recently. The open source model is very successful so why not use it in other business such agriculture, medicine, industry and even arts and music ! The theory sounds great, but how to put it in practice ?
