Yes, the Free Software movement and (Worker) Cooperatives should definitely join up!
One prominent area that I can think of is the Payment System (like GNU Taler). It would be a wonderful exercise of global people power if can all get together and create the People's replacement of Credit Cards and others dominated by the Capitalists!😄 > On Jul 13, 2021, at 16:33, Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss > <libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org> wrote: > >  > >> On 13/07/2021 08:18, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: >> Il 13/07/21 00:37, Yasuaki Kudo ha scritto: >>> In a worker cooperative, there is one-person-one-vote democracy. So I >>> cannot just dictate that the Software Licensing we use will be GPL. >> You can if you put it in the articles of incorporation or bylaws (depending >> on your jurisdiction). >> Federico > > With that sort of set up surely what you can do is present a strong argument > not just ethically but also financially and technically for using free > software, cite some good examples of where it has proven to be effective. > Ideally that people can related to. > > The internet runs on free software (well mostly) for example. > > Libreoffice documentation is coming along nicely, which helps, do not assume > people can simply pick up some software and just use it without help. In > some cases are even just able to search and find the right information. > > I think the idea of platform coops is something I suggested on social hub as > a way to expend the fediverse, as in more people running their own server or > have small groups doing so. They like the idea we, as with free software we > need some sort of critical mass using it. > > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > libreplanet-discuss mailing list > libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org > https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss