Talk:Cooperatives

Michel,

I am concerned about one of your points in comparing P2P with cooperatives:

2. P2P belongs to all and cooperatives belong to an specific collective, you know, the workers that are the owners.

This is not necessarily accurate because there is a type of cooperative much closer to User Ownership where it is not the workers, but the consumers that own.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers%27_cooperative
• http://Fax.libs.UGA.edu/HD3271xG453/1f Consumers' Co-Operative Societies by Charles Gide

--Ownut 08:53, 11 September 2007 (PDT)

You are correct, there are consumer cooperatives, but the principle that they are limited to their own members is the same.

Michel--Mbauwens 04:36, 12 September 2007 (PDT)