Open Source Capitalism

* Essay: Nic Wistreich. Open Source Capitalism.

URL = http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/linkclick.aspx?fileticket=-jehTWdcKTk%3d&tabid=1913

Winner of the 'Co-operative Alternatives to Capitalism' essay prize. [1]

Summary

"The co-operative movement and the open source movement both create complex, world-class organisations motivated by social rather than financial goals. From Wikipedia and Linux to Mondragon and the Co-operative Bank, both movements offer coherent alternatives to the kind of business-as-usual profit-seeking structures which are driving the world to the brink of ecological collapse.

Yet they are separate and largely independent from each other. Why is this? What might the potential be if they joined forces? Could we be within the grasp of a real alternative to capitalism?" (http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/latestnews/tabid/62/entryid/1174/the-co-operative-movement-and-open-source.aspx)