"Jon Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] I have a ltd > company I work through with clients. I'm not aware of the details of a > coop, but I presume it is like all being directors and sharing the > profit after a lower base salary.
"Assumption is the mother of all..." (well, you can complete the movie quote yourself if you don't mind the swearing.) Fair profit-sharing is part of a cooperative, but it's not only about money. Cooperators should also consider the effects on their people and the wider community. "Co-operatives are enterprises that put people at the centre of their business and not capital." http://www.ica.coop/coop/index.html Although the UK is home to some of the largest cooperatives in the world (see www.global300.coop - the Cooperative Group, Nationwide Building Society, Royal London, Milk Link, maybe John Lewis), they're relatively rare in many fields, apparently including software development. Is this because *a* co-op is confused with "the" co-op shops; or because the main cooperative-creation legislation is about a century old and handled by the FSA instead of Companies House; or because most Business Links are geared up for sole trading and partnerships and rarely understand company registration let alone cooperatives? More of that and much more speculation on http://www.co-opnet.coop Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
