From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 30 19:28:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39E8B15239 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 19:28:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA07940; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 20:27:46 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990730202201.040563c0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 20:27:36 -0600 To: Norm Jacobowitz , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Cooperative Funding of Development In-Reply-To: <37A234FB.95051D2C@aa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I personally am concerned about this approach, because I see in it some serious potential for abuse. Suppose Software Company A and Software Company B are competitors in the market for Product X, but only Software Company B produces Product Y. Software Company A comes up with a brilliant idea: why not put a "bounty" on the development of an open source copy of Product Y? Company B, which may have spent years developing the concept behind Product Y and building a market for it, suddenly has the legs kicked out from under it. I could see this as a nasty anticompetitive tactic. Even Microsoft might use it. --Brett Glass At 04:27 PM 7/30/99 -0700, Norm Jacobowitz wrote: >Hi, > >Humbly begging your pardon lest this be perceived as spam ... > >but please take a moment to check out http://www.cosource.com/ . > >We are actively seeking help to make the site work for the BSD community >in the way it now works for the Linux and broader Open Source world. > >Where you now see Linux folders, we'd like to add BSD folders where >members request and fund BSD development. > >Norm > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message