From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Mar 15 21:25:13 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 5033337B401 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 21:25:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from hardtime.linuxman.net (hardtime.linuxman.net [66.147.26.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 480EE43F85 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 21:25:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from mortis.over-yonder.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hardtime.linuxman.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h2G6e3506318; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 00:40:04 -0600 Received: by mortis.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id C83FA20F3C; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 23:24:00 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 23:24:00 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: "Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek" Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org Subject: Re: When does it make sense for a company to open-source its code? Message-ID: <20030316052400.GJ41628@over-yonder.net> References: <0HBT00H6WFNMOC@net.WAU.NL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0HBT00H6WFNMOC@net.WAU.NL> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i-fullermd.1 X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD 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 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." -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message