Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:32:55 +0000 From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: FST777@phreaker.net, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When does it make sense for a company to open-source its code? Message-ID: <20030317123254.GA82269@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <a05200f33ba9abacabe36@[10.0.1.2]> References: <0HBT00H6WFNMOC@net.WAU.NL> <a05200f33ba9abacabe36@[10.0.1.2]>
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On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:43:45AM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: : Doing a mixed model really is the best choice for both communities. : : The company gets to avoid paying most of the ongoing maintenance : & support costs for the software (that cost is instead born by the : open-source community itself). : : OTOH, the open-source community gets features implemented (by the : company) which would not otherwise have seen the light of day (I'm : sure you can find many more examples than I can think of, but : consider all the work that was done for the Whistle InterJet and : which was contributed to FreeBSD). That certainly sounds like it makes sense. The only catch for our application is it is market specific, and would have limited interest at this point. However, as *nix and OSS catches on, there will more than likely be more interest as education institutions promote using OSS for solutions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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