Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 23:24:00 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: "Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek" <FST777@phreaker.net> 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> In-Reply-To: <0HBT00H6WFNMOC@net.WAU.NL> References: <0HBT00H6WFNMOC@net.WAU.NL>
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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
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