On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:36:26AM -0500, Ian G wrote:
Ralf Schlatterbeck schrieb:
Warum nicht was existierendes nehmen?
One would think that! But, the history of alternative money systems is littered with attempts to share software; none have ever worked to my knowledge. It was certainly the biggest mistake I made, it's unworkable to even give away software for lack of common agreement, let alone sell it.
I guess this is because money is such a complex subject that nobody can agree on it. It is like the proverbial elephant and the blind men. All are holding a part and will not agree on what they feel. If you put the Strohalm people in a room with the Paypal room, there won't be a single point of agreement, and I wouldn't agree with either of them :)
This is *very* interesting. How about sharing your experience on the subject with us (maybe @linuxwochen or one of the next events like linuxwochenende @metalab?), I'd be very interested, still remember a discussion with you on the subject at some netculturelab event (on innovation, I think) I've written up some more things I read since my talk@linuxwochenende on http://blog.runtux.com/ in particular there is an interesting (but quite dead, unfortunately, which seems to confirm your thesis) project named opencoin. Ralf -- Ralf Schlatterbeck email: ralf@zoo.priv.at FAX: +43/2243/26465/23