[open-development] Hosting Open Development

Fri Sep 16 14:05:53 UTC 2011

Jose M. Alonso wrote:
> It's not as easy nor cheap as one could think.

Yes, the owners of Amazon agree.

And yet Amazon charges more than
it really Costs (they collect Profit)
from us, the Users.

And so, at first, until we grow in size,
our "economy of scale" will be low.

But the PropertyLeft approach has an
advantage because we only need to
cover the real Costs of production to
remain a viable business (because we
will be paying ourselves with Product
instead of Profit), whereas a 'normal'
business must continually collect
MORE than the Costs of production
since they use that special value
(Profit) to pay their Investors.

User-Owned production outperforms
regular 'Capitalistic' offerings through
a business model where:

- Investors are Product Users (like Mutual Funds, but for Use-Value).
- Product is Investor's Return (the ROI is simply the outputs of
production, such as data hosting.).
- Profit is Payer's Investment (this occurs when selling surplus to non-owners).

Patrick Anderson
http://ImputedProduction.BlogSpot.com