Re:Jami: GNU end-to-end encrypted alternative to Zoom and Jitsi
by lambertsimnel on Thursday April 02, 2020 @06:09AM
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I share your interest in cooperatives, but not all cooperatives are equal. If we expect cooperatives to provide public interest services that might otherwise be P2P or nonprofit, I think we need a special kind of cooperative.
I belong to cooperatives that are politically partisan, that engage in sharp practice, and that aren't as democratic as I'd like. I'd prefer cooperatives to concentrate on treating stakeholders fairly, representing members equally and effectively, and prudent stewardship of their assets.
Cooperatives might lose their focus on their main purposes and discourage some non-progressives from becoming members/customers by pursuing too wide a range of progressive causes.
Re:Jami: GNU end-to-end encrypted alternative to Zoom and Jitsi
by hkt on Thursday April 02, 2020 @07:27PM
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In the UK we have a legal form called a community interest company. This, owned by a co-op, would probably be the right form.
As an aside, I don't believe in the virtues of P2P anymore. It's clear to me that centralised systems scale further and faster, and what we need are benign organisations to run them. Legal forms like cooperatives and community benefit societies (nonprofits in the US I guess) are the way forward. I'd choose a community instance of Jitsi as being the best approximation of this for now.