From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 16 12:14: 1 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D5D437B401 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 12:14:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55EE443F85 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 12:13:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18ueW6-0004Bw-00; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 20:13:58 +0000 Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h2GKDvPe077839; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 20:13:57 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h2GKDu0f077835; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 20:13:56 GMT Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 20:13:55 +0000 From: Jonathon McKitrick To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: "Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek" , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When does it make sense for a company to open-source its code? Message-ID: <20030316201355.GA77801@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <0HBT00H6WFNMOC@net.WAU.NL> <20030316052400.GJ41628@over-yonder.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030316052400.GJ41628@over-yonder.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18ueW6-0004Bw-00*uVQr6fm9ang* Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 11:24:00PM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: : On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 01:21:05AM +0100 I heard the voice of : Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek, and lo! it spake thus: : > : > All the advantages will point to the fact that behind every Open Source : > software-project a huge supporting community stands. That is always a nice : > idea for a company. : : Behing every _SUCCESSFUL_ open source software project, is how that : should read. : : One of Terry's favorite themes to harp on; that community is the biggest : asset of an open source project, but you can't magic a community into : being by waving a magic wand and saying, "Abracadabra, this code is open : source." Well, that's true. Anyone interested in using the code would need our instrument, or something a lot like it. That would imply we would have a small community, especially since up until now our software has been Windows based. Jonathon -- For Sale: French Army rifle. Never fired, dropped once. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message