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The Oscoin Whitepaper
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Abstract and Introduction #2

Closed hxrts closed 5 years ago

hxrts commented 5 years ago

Are we no longer using any of the abstract and introduction I wrote?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ePUWYMktAt6ptskHMJmt2GUcbUnVTGoPcMTC22zmHZs/edit#

cloudhead commented 5 years ago

I'd be happy to, they are great - the only problem is they are positioned from the perspective of oscoin solving the problem of centralized collaboration, which we moved away from when we split oscoin and radicle. The Abstract would only need one sentence taken out though.

cloudhead commented 5 years ago

How about:

The success of the open source movement stems from its dynamic culture of peer-to-peer distribution and collaboration. Yet, as open source has grown from free software ideal to industry standard, third party businesses have disproportionately captured the value created by open source projects. Here we propose a community-organized alternative, open source coin, a secure peer-to-peer protocol for developing a sustainable open source economy, as well as a platform for establishing trust and transparency in open source communities

cloudhead commented 5 years ago

Done: https://github.com/oscoin/whitepaper/commit/1b7567d181294439f5e136ac5646d37e2409e79a

The intro is trickier, but we can look into it!

hxrts commented 5 years ago

No obligation to take anything but there might be a couple sentences we find useful.

I was surprised to see this draft written clean-slate. It worked though, so can't really complain.

cloudhead commented 5 years ago

Yeah, I think ele took some things from here and there for the intro, but we ended up focusing it much more towards funding/trust/transparency, vs. centralization/collaboration, so it required a different structure.