We are trying to start a worker cooperative in Japan, initially focused on application of IT, with these initial business ideas:
* Help existing worker coop * Create Platform Cooperatives * Create cooperative financial systems At least in Japan, it seems worker cooperatives have not yet ventured into Information Technology as the main business. Internationally, there are many existing IT worker coops but it seems to me many of them simply get paid for developing the software that their customers will keep( although I have also heard that some customers will pay them to develop free software). Cooperatives are usually considered to be socialists and are in favor of creating common good for the society. If/when we develop business oriented software for the existing or new cooperatives, or federation of cooperatives, I am very curious what our consensus, or discussions leading up to it, will be regarding software licensing and Intellectual Property at large. 😄 -Yasu > On Jul 12, 2021, at 09:50, [email protected] wrote: > > Yasuaki Kudo <[email protected]> writes: >> My original motivation of this inquiry is that my partners and I are >> in the process of starting an IT-focused 'worker cooperative' where, >> just like the GPL licensing, there is almost a playful inversion of >> Capitalistic values. We will probably need to make software licensing >> decisions sooner or later and I wanted to get a wholistic view of this >> matter 😄. >> -Yasu > > I am very interested in this. Please provide any information when you > get around it. _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
