Article SHBC Fighting Uber's Death Star with a Rebel Alliance of co-op platforms

Fighting Uber's Death Star with a Rebel Alliance of co-op platforms

by
Cory Doctorow
from on (#SHBC)

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As Mark Andreessen noted, software is eating the world because once it's developed, it scales to infinity. That means that once a worker's co-op of drivers clones Uber's platform in free/open code, drivers in every city in the world can disrupt the company, throw off its rent-seeking, and fill their pockets with the money the company siphons off for providing very little at the margins. (more")

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