Awesome. Glad to hear all that. Keep up the good work :-D Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
-----Original Message----- From: John Van Ostrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:32:19 To:Barry project development discussion <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Barry-devel] Net Direct's goals Zach Stern wrote: Out of curiosity, what is Net Direct's interest in working on the barry software? Pure goodwill? (doubtful) Either way we all do appreciate the work. Our interest is closer to goodwill that you may think. You probably know that Net Direct is a Linux solution provider located in the same city as Research in Motion, in fact they are a customer. (That's not really that impressive, as you can imagine lots of Waterloo companies work with RIM.) This really means two things. We all use Linux on our desktops and our choice of PDA is the Blackberry. We also have a real desire not to use Windows if at all possible so we started work on Barry for our own needs. We also saw it as "paying it forward" for all the great open source software we use in our customer's solutions and our own office. We do contribute to other projects when the need arises, just not as much as the value we receive. Finally there is value in sharing development work. Now we do hope that it's able to turn into something that justifies itself, and there are lots of ways that it can. The fact that more people know about Net Direct and what we do helps. We've had business partners look at it as a sign of commitment to open source. Some people at RIM look at it that way too, I just hope their legal department does as well. However it still has yet to result in a sale of consulting services or hardware sales but sometimes that is hard to track and as with many types of exposure it can take time to work. Our work on Barry has given us a better sense of what it takes to create and manage and open source project. It's taken a while to build the project so that it attracted developers, but we are quite glad to see lots of people enjoying the project so far and contributing. -- John Van Ostrand Net Direct Inc. CTO, co-CEO 564 Weber St. N. Unit 12 map Waterloo, ON N2L 5C6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ph: 866-883-1172 ext.5102 Linux Solutions / IBM Hardware Fx: 519-883-8533 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
