Comments on: What is an “Open Business”?

By: photopatented

photopatented — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:35:15 +0000

Do you want to know what is 'Closed business' and how may be letters 'cease and desist' used against competition?

Check sites
http://www.abundantmedia.com/centarsia/
http://www.kirchgessner.net/photo-mosaic.html

By: so bored

so bored — Tue, 30 May 2006 13:40:47 +0000

the best way to sum up this post and comments is: garbage in = garbage out (since we're all so into the idea of re-defining things). how about an open-brothel? can any noun be cool and politically active by calling itself open? this is why people like richard stallman think "open" is such a load of crap. it doesn't mean anything if it means something different to everybody.

By: three blind mice

three blind mice — Tue, 30 May 2006 12:58:14 +0000

democracy only works within socialism, and cannot survive within free-market capitalism

well, the economic and political history of the 20th century would seem to suggest otherwise. admittedly the evidence is empirical, but the collapse of those socialist republics at more or less the same time was rather compelling.

By: Niall

Niall — Tue, 30 May 2006 08:14:40 +0000

open-business is a little dutch boy with his finger in the dyke, free market will drown us all, literally as environmental effects increase a pace

democracy only works within socialism, and cannot survive within free-market capitalism

and to Paul M, many open classrooms have developed over the net and off it, in the spirit of 'the pedagogy of the oppressed', we generate courseware that reflects our own needs as we experience them in our communities, without the support of ivory towers

By: Paul M

Paul M — Tue, 30 May 2006 03:11:02 +0000

I meant Stanford, I always mix up universities such as these.

By: Paul M

Paul M — Tue, 30 May 2006 03:04:12 +0000

While the costs of Harvard in both the money and brainpower areas are both prohibitive to an person such as myself, I feel like this blog is a gift in a way. It is led by a Harvard professor with content he has chosen, and I can read it and comment on it as well as read comments from other interested individuals. We are, in fact, being educated here, and none of us has paid a penny. So thank you Prof. Lessig! Furthermore, because of our interest, we also read about, say, Gore's global warming movie, and this could lead to change in a persons habits. So Lessig is effecting change as well. Isn't Lessig leading an "open classroom" in a way?

By: Evan Prodromou

Evan Prodromou — Sun, 28 May 2006 03:22:00 +0000

I found the Open Company Test through Wikia, and I think it's an excellent checklist for businesspeople and for their customers.

By: capitalist pig

capitalist pig — Fri, 26 May 2006 15:54:27 +0000

there is a great deal of inconsistency in attempting to have a more open and moral type of business atmosphere in a capitalist marketplace (re: chomsky). this is much like the inconsistency in debates over the preservation of democracy: a nation founded on doctrines spewing equality/a country built by slavery and genocide. the answer to what is an open business: just words.

By: somewhat annoyed

somewhat annoyed — Fri, 26 May 2006 15:38:03 +0000

sort of a waste of my time, larry.

By: Graham Hill

Graham Hill — Fri, 26 May 2006 14:27:08 +0000

I tried to look at the OB Wiki today, but found myself locked out and an unintelligible error message instead. Let's hope the OB Wiki overcomes these teething problems soon.