On 2017-04-10 19:38, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
The way I'm thinking about it, the "customer" would be existing taxi
companies that already have a pool of drivers and a customer base.
They
know they need to modernize to compete, so if there was a turn-key
whitelabel app or some kind of
The way I'm thinking about it, the "customer" would be existing taxi
companies that already have a pool of drivers and a customer base. They
know they need to modernize to compete, so if there was a turn-key
whitelabel app or some kind of general service modeled like gitlab-ish,
those companies
I'm pretty sure I saw Trebor Scholz give a talk that mentioned some open
source code that taxi coops were using. Maybe on one of
the digital labor/platform cooperativism streams.. I'll see if I can find
it.
-a
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <
h...@guardianproject.info>
Nathan of Guardian:
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> On Sat, Apr 8, 2017, at 10:57 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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>> Its always seemed to me that building the software behind things like
>> Uber and Lyft would not be so hard. If there was a free software
>> version, then all of these taxi companies around the
On Sat, Apr 8, 2017, at 10:57 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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> Its always seemed to me that building the software behind things like
> Uber and Lyft would not be so hard. If there was a free software
> version, then all of these taxi companies around the world would be able
> to compete
It's probably worth gaining familiarity with various dirty tricks the
industry uses, as well as brainstorming active attacks on the
platform/industry.
In particular I'm thinking of Uber's "greyballing" as well as some of the
things the satellite TV industry has done; I can't imagine either TNC or
