From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 17 4:33: 0 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 E26E237B401 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 04:32:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8A6543FAF for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 04:32:57 -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 18utnU-0004tU-00; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:32:56 +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 h2HCWuPe082322; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:32:56 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 h2HCWtwb082321; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:32:55 GMT Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:32:55 +0000 From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Brad Knowles 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> References: <0HBT00H6WFNMOC@net.WAU.NL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18utnU-0004tU-00*rwBLBSQrF32* 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 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