Hi,

Something surprising. Many poeple, administration, society, firm... use and preach for open source and free software. It' great !

But.

Which enterprise, start-up and so, using free software, uses free management too ?

Generally they keep paternalist and classic hierachy. This can be a contradiction.

And how to change the world if we can't change social and economical relationship ?

Do you know example of compagnies, organisations, using free philosophy for management ?

What is 'free management'?

I don't know exactly this is the reason of this question. I am surprise that people or compagnies who preach for open source softwares and its philosophy seem to be manage as microsoft or another traditionals compagnies. This is a self contradiction.

How is it a self-contradiction? One of the points GPL-ed software is that if the makers are somehow "evil", the project can be forked. (For instance, if Mozilla's google-toolbar money went somewhere silly, where does it go, anyway?)

Open management at itself sounds like it could be a cool idea though. How about a "open market" system where people with small supermarkets, and list their sources of products, and what they have too little/excess online.(relative to nearby small stores it can be handy) That way people can see where a product came from, if the prices are reasonable for the parties involved. Maybe users can give some input too.
Lots of problems here though, like is it fast enough?(perishables) The system must be uncheatable too. Of course, data of where products from normal supermarkets came from is also useful.
Perhaps the idea is only viable from the consumer side, knowing where your food came from.
Realize it is just an (maybe crazy)idea!

Where did you read about free management? Could you provide a link, please.

I don't undestand why do you talk about supermarket ?

Earning money is not my question.

I say just that a lot of compagnies using gpl are closed compagnies, with no transparency, pyramidal pay and sometimes more interrested by protecting their bizness than share their forces.

(sorry for my english... It's hard to explain a complex idea in a foreign language...)

@gilles: I was just talking about ideas about how to manage things "open source", was hoping other people had better ones. Maybe it was offtopic.
Companies more interested in protecting their business rather then focussing on their production are often more successfull, i guess. Luckily some of them produce FOSS software, so that the work is not as easily lost. (and many of the people that actually do the work, do want to be good at it.) I do not see an inconsistentcy, does making FOSS even have a impact on how open/closed the corporation is?