Non Profit Product

Mitch Kapor's Weblog: Reflections on OSAF as an Organization

Mitch Kapor is the founder of Lotus a huge software company in the 80's, I believe its now part of IBM. He also co-founded the EFF. His current project is a non profit organization (OSAF) developing an open source software product. The link above details some of the motivations and philosophy behind the project.

Why do I care? Because this a serious project that attempts to break many of the economic models that underpin our society of state sponsored private corporation driven capitalism. Public traded corporations make money, non profits beg for it (or if they are lucky inherit it), and the government wedges in between sometimes making things better, sometimes accelerating problems and enforcing the spaces of power.

I know there is a better way. I think Mitch Kapor does to, and he's in a situation to really do something about it. And so far it looks like he's doing a great job. I'll be watching developments with great interest.