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| DATE | 2002-01-10 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Fwd: [fairuse-discuss] FreeDevelopers.net [seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org]
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On 2002.01.10 14:33:19 -0500 Seth Johnson wrote:
http://FreeDevelopers.net/
A company of free developers by free developers, for a free
world
FreeDevelopers is a democratic entity for the development of
free software. The free company, probably the first of its
kind in the world, will be owned and run by developers
worldwide on a democratic basis in a sacred trust for the
benefit and protection of the world's citizens. It will pay
all developers to work on free software, and all developers
will receive company shares and stock options, also. All
software of the free company will be licensed under the
General Public License (GPL) and remain free/open forever,
because all software must be available to all current and
future generations of developers, so that they can be the
first line of defense to protect the world from the
inevitably tyrannical tendencies of proprietary software.
Basic Principles
Our basic principles:
1.All our code must be free and GPL'd. That requirement is
fundamental and as such will be in the corporate
constitution.
2.Our company will be a democracy modeled on the US
Constitution's system of checks and balances of power.
3.Developers all over the world will be paid the same world
price to develop free software, payable as salaries and/or
stock options, regardless of where they are from.
4.We will takeover proprietary companies to free their
developers and their code, when appropriate.
Basis for the Company
Our basic idea is that we will replace the traditional
corporate governance apparatus (which is more a
command-and-control, tyrannical system) with one that is
more like the democratic governance system envisioned in the
U.S. Constitution. Thereby, analogizing the lessons learned
in political democracy to what we call commercial democracy,
the company will have something like a rotating
CEO/President, but one with significant accountability to a
congress of developers, which itself will be elected by the
world developers.
We will also have a panel of experts appointed by the
congress to adjudicate any conflicts.
We need your help.
How To Join
To join FreeDevelopers
Consult the Company document
To contact FreeDevelopers
e-mail: contact-at-freedevelopers.net
You can also join the following working groups:
FD-Democracy
mailto:FD-Democracy-subscribe-at-topica.com
FD-IT
mailto:FD-IT-subscribe-at-topica.com
FD-Philosophy
mailto:FD-PublicRelations-subscribe-at-topica.com
FD-PublicRelations
mailto:FD-PublicRelations-subscribe-at-topica.com
FD-Recruitment
mailto:FD-Recruitment-subscribe-at-topica.com
FD-Structure1
mailto:FD-Structure1-subscribe-at-topica.com
FD-Structure2
mailto:FD-Structure2-subscribe-at-topica.com
FD-Students
mailto:FD-Students-subscribe-at-topica.com
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