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Autore: Mike Gogulski
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To: System undo crew
Oggetto: Re: [unSYSTEM] life at valve: A Billion Dollar Company With No Bosses
Hi Pablo. No, I stopped here:

    Valve owns its intellectual property. This is far from the
    norm, in our industry or at most entertainment content-
    producing companies. We didn’t always own it all. But
    thanks to some legal wrangling with our first publisher
    after Half-Life shipped, we now do. This has freed us to
    make our own decisions about our products.


I'm sure that it's all spiff to work there and stuff, but the fact that
IP is mentioned /exactly once/ without any criticism at all in this
corp-slave non-manifesto is enough to put me off my breakfast.



On 01/05/2014 12:04 PM, Pablo Arriazu wrote:
> Have you read the "valve's handbook for new employers"?
> http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf
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> El 05/01/14 07:19, Mike Gogulski escribió:
>> How many IP lawyers do they employ?
> Well, that's true. And I'm sure this amazing working structure doesn't
> apply for cleaning people, maintenance guys, etc. But it deserves a
> reading.
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> btw, I'm Pablo and I've been a "lurker" for about three or four weeks
> and here I've found people that has very close perspectives to mine,
> so... hello!, I promise I will prepare a small introduction in other
> moment :D
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>> On 01/04/2014 10:32 PM, Amir Taaki wrote:
>>> http://www.inc.com/samuel-wagreich/the-4-billion-company-with-no-bosses.html
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>>> “The most astonishing aspect of life at Valve is that there are no
>>> bosses,” said Varoufakis, an economist from the University of Athens with
>>> notable publications on the Euro Crisis. “It contains no explicit
>>> hierarchy. It’s based on what several members of the company have
>>> described to me as the principles of anarcho-syndicalism. Effectively,
>>> free association of employees with one another.”
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