Free License Oriented Programming

[Yasuaki Kudo]

Hi,

So I have been thinking for a long time how to change the tide and make the 
workplace democracy (one worker one vote and zero shareholder votes, or worker 
cooperatives) more of the norm rather than exception, as well as how to start 
one 😅

In that vein, I thought about the sort of market in which workplace democracy 
really has the natural competitive advantage, rather than just having nicer 
administration and relationships among the workers?

I wonder if this is a viable idea - we set up a software worker cooperative 
whose business model is to divide the customers' problems into pieces of free 
software with multiple aims:

* Lower the cost of maintenance by relying as much as possible on 'free lunch' 
provided the by the free software.
* Prevent the internal cottage industry within large enterprises that require 
huge IT budgets due to all systems being custom made for the organization and 
there is not enough exposure or critical analysis
* Create better public relations by making contributions to Free Software as 
necessary.
* Effective documentation that is verified by the community open to any new 
comer
* Ensure relevant workers can be found and hired when needed
* and so on


The worker cooperatives, with its democratic cultures will fit naturally to the 
Free Software community and they can help closed private (capitalist) 
enterprises so they can decompose their software requirements to pieces of Free 
Software, stitch them together to have the real corporate systems.


To be more concrete, say a bank has proprietary risk evaluation systems that 
cost a lot of money for them to maintain.   What part of the system do they 
really want to maintain and what part of is just commodity trucking of 
information (ETL) that they only regard as cost of doing business.   Can we 
break it up into pieces of Free Software and reduce the problem into the 
integration of the software as the enterprises see fit?

I wonder what your thoughts are 😄

Cheers,
Yasu