http://robertogaloppini.net/2006/12/14/gnu-economy-the-franchising-model/ Where Free Software meets Businessequally critical of proprietary and open source myths,advocating software choice beyondmarketing and romanticism Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:47:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://robertogaloppini.net/2006/12/14/gnu-economy-the-franchising-model/#comment-725 Elzeviro » Orixo in the EU spotlight Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:44:50 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2006/12/14/gnu-economy-the-franchising-model/#comment-725 [...] Don’t get me wrong: Orixo has definitely been a great experience, and I’m looking forward to do more over there in the field of advocacy and general marketing, but I would strongly advise against using consortia to do actual business. It just doesn’t work, no matter how I love my fellow Orixians. Consortia are great for networking, getting to know each other better, share experiences and market approaches, understand joint business opportunities and work on actual cross-company business: that’s great stuff, but don’t try to push the boundary, as when it comes to concrete business it’s just too hard to cope with the sheer amount of management that kicks in. It’s a full time job. Side note: Roberto has some interesting ideas on a Open Source franchising model which might serve as an alternative for the SME market. I’m actually very skeptical and I’m not convinced it would work in the end, but there are some concepts I’d like to delve further into. But that’s not going to happen before I return from my upcoming vacation! [...] […] Don’t get me wrong: Orixo has definitely been a great experience, and I’m looking forward to do more over there in the field of advocacy and general marketing, but I would strongly advise against using consortia to do actual business. It just doesn’t work, no matter how I love my fellow Orixians. Consortia are great for networking, getting to know each other better, share experiences and market approaches, understand joint business opportunities and work on actual cross-company business: that’s great stuff, but don’t try to push the boundary, as when it comes to concrete business it’s just too hard to cope with the sheer amount of management that kicks in. It’s a full time job. Side note: Roberto has some interesting ideas on a Open Source franchising model which might serve as an alternative for the SME market. I’m actually very skeptical and I’m not convinced it would work in the end, but there are some concepts I’d like to delve further into. But that’s not going to happen before I return from my upcoming vacation! […]

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