http://www.northbridge.com/open-source-taking-over-software-world-survey-says

It’s been recognized that software is eating the world,” said Michael Skok, general partner at North Bridge Venture Partners. “Our survey points to the fact that open source is eating the software world

Open Source does not suffer from intrinsic entropy of development that plagues Closed Source Systems.

Open Source has better chance of long term survival due to the concept of “forking” the code base.

Open Source is also “more democratic” than Closed Source Systems historically.

Many consultants and organizations love to cite market share.

Using an “Open Source Cooperative Business Model” is the foundation for future businesses.

The making of the Cooperative Cloud

1. Freemium
2. Low Cost
3. Medium Cost
4. High Cost

Features that are unique to the system and involve Human Intervention to program the Features are applied in stages or levels at each of the levels beyond 1: these other levels generate revenue and the community of cooperative member-owners vote on Features & Benefits that they would like to have in the System.

The Freemium Level will obviously come with the Seed Server which you purchase and receive the first 2 levels of Software.

Base Cost of Hardware (Seed Server) + $29.95 per month after the first year with option for annual renewal, $299.99 when included with the Server.

$2002.69  (Spec in development)

WIP (30/08/2018)

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https://joinmastodon.org/

Setting up your own Mastadon instance puts your DATA back in your hands where it belongs.

• Architects
• Civil Engineers
• City Planners
• Interior Designers
• Construction Project Managers
• Product Designers

Should all be required to have Universal Design as a part of their curriculum of their respective College or University and let us be frank. Those same  public institutions are not as “accessible” as we might think they are.

We have standards for a reason. There are most industries that regularly handle the Critical Path to achieve a solution that is a best for a scenario.

We’ll see how things unfold with SidewalkToronto and they are still in the very early stages. Hopefully their efforts will be adopted globally, not just Nationally or within the City.

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Data can and SHOULD have an expiry date outside of our sphere of control. The European Union has tackled this. The Canadian governments have attempted to deal with this.

By using Open Source, and requiring all publicly funded software systems that handle people’s personal data should be required to use Open Source Software and Data Principles is one way.

This has been quietly happening in many governments and corporations.

Now the conversations you have are yours to manage even when you’re chatting. This is why I use Signal

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