Reuters, February 2, 2012
By Paul Smalera

If Mark Zuckerberg really wants to accomplish his social mission with Facebook, he should share the company's ownership with the people who helped him create it. Not just his Harvard contemporaries. Not just the programmers. Not even just the venture capitalists. He should share it with all of us -- the users. Facebook should be a user-owned, user-managed company, run for the benefit of users. For the Facebook, by the Facebook. The company should be a cooperative.

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