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Re:Ask HN: Co-Ops for Developers? by kmort on Thursday December 09, 2010 @05:52PM (#1989595)
It's a design I've been tinkering with for while and have a bunch of notes about. Reputation would be handled by a transparent history of all projects worked on.

The profit-sharing design does not prevent collusion. E.g., if there are a glut of programmers and a shortage of artists in the collective, then two may collude to submit and share a low programmer bid and a high artist bid (and vice versa on another project).

Collectives are hard and are subject to many problems that the free market does not suffer.

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