On Monday 27 December 2010 22:20:22 Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
2010/12/27 Akshay Mishra akshaymishra@gmail.com:
A cooperative, I suppose is the best suited. Has worked for a variety
Let the customer get the benefit of cost and decide on quality. Why should an open-source list that's mostly for fun get into commercial agreements.
Cooperatives are not commercial entities. They are supposed to work for the common benefit of all members (which is what is being proposed here). If I remember correctly, LUG-Delhi is a cooperative.
Besides co-operatives deal with goods, rather than services. Consequently it is relatively simple to account. In the rare cases where they deal with services, the services are in a very well defined and narrow spread. In contrast we have an extremely broad spectrum with a very divergent set of skills and performance level. A model which bears some resemblance to the proposal is temp staffing.