[p2p-research] Fwd: Open Wallet Business invented

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Kārlis Repsons <k at 11.lv>
Date: Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:24 AM
Subject: Open Wallet Business invented
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People,
let me point your attention to a new kind of business, which has this far
been
impossible because of lack of adequate technological solutions and the
related
attitudes to it along with lacking knowledge. In fact, numerous big software
projects, which do/should collect their money from many sources are
operational already, just like there are many small developments like some
dedicated blogs, which should receive support from many sources. As I see
it,
currently a great deal of failure is going on with both intelligently
supporting others' developments and receiving support for own ones. And it
doesn't surprise me at all -- how can things be different, when no trust is
out
there, just like predominantly there is so little knowledge about how much
support a given project needs! Even it might all seem just logical to many,
who see no failure, as such are the capabilities of the current economy.
Quite
inevitably, given an understanding about the capabilities of the latest
information technologies, reasoning leads me to a conclusion, that a new
kind
of business is necessary. As various information projects develop and
benefit
everyone, who copies them in some way and finds them useful, the importance
of
competition lessens as opposed to importance of cooperation, simply because
of
more efficient way of making life better. But... Cooperation requires mutual
support, which requires trust. How can so many people, who convene around a
full spectrum of numerous information projects have a way to know how much
support a given project needs, when question is about money? The full answer
is too complex to say, effectively it is unique for each project and can
differ
greatly, however there is an important thing in common for all -- to receive
support, open information projects have to provide knowledge of the support,
which has been received already. That way there can be some reasonable
trust.
And it can happen through technological reliability. To understand what I
mean
by those two words, you have to read my presentation (link given below). In
essence, I believe, that technological reliability can solve many problems
and
I also think, that I've made a bit of invention as for how to achieve it.

If you feel interested this far, you should read this:
http://11.lv/files/presentations/2010/OWB/OWB-eng.pdf
or, if you would prefer slides, where contents appear incrementally, as if I
was telling them piece by piece:
http://11.lv/files/presentations/2010/OWB/OWB-eng-i.pdf

To git people: (hopefully this can be accepted there) well, first, thanks
for
inspiring me with your VCS, also I think, your responses might be valuable,
as
you're many serious programmers there, you could inspect my idea from
technical point of view and give a feedback of what flaws you can see!

Thinking it over for multiple times, I think, those 5 principles are enough
an
idea to build the relevant software and use it with success... But Internet
has a lot more eyes than I do, so, please be critical (but precise)! I'd
like
to have some confirmation, that my idea can be what I think it is, just like
it
should be useful to discuss the underlying problem (distributed support) in
general.

Development of those software components should be the further discussion,
but
I think, we are not there yet.


Also, if you are interested in this and happen to use gpg, please do a
favour
to me: consider that presentation a piece of my content-based identity and,
to
be sure of the next contents you might read, where I'm supposedly an author
and signature file is given (as I'll do for each +- serious work), check the
respective signatures against the attached public key (I do my best not to
loose the other component of it)! If some mailprogram removes those files,
search for 0xDA7B716812463FDFAB8D7A2E9CA777980D745B45 Thanks...



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