I think one big difference between open source and commercial research is
the people who get involved doing the development (as opposed to the users
such as myself). I think there is an over abundance of people on open
source projects who are near the top of the productivity scale, and in
commercial research there tends to be more of a normal mix, certainly over
time this becomes true over time even if it isn't true when a company gets
started. Of course on the negative side, open source egos tend to cause
more fragmentation of the market than you would have in a commercial
marketplace.
Clearly there are plenty of people getting paid to work on Linux, one way or
the other. If you, or some chunk of the JBoss development team could get to
that state I think there would be no stopping you!
Cheers
-----Original Message-----
From: marc fleury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 12:32 PM
To: JBoss-Dev
Subject: RE: [jBoss-Dev] I guess we should call it quits ...
well,
sorry I am jumping late. Only today did I read it.
While there is a lot of FUD, I do relate to some of the points made by MS
guys.
I do believe that even open source needs funding to grow and manage
innovation :)
I am in that spot right now and believe me it is a bitch to figure out :)
Without proper "financing of research and innovation" it isn't as fast or
powerful as proprietary funded models.
There is a pragmatic solution we believe ;-)
marc
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|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Luke Taylor
|Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 2:52 AM
|To: JBoss-Dev
|Subject: Re: [jBoss-Dev] I guess we should call it quits ...
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|
|"I'm an American, I believe in the American Way, I worry if the
|government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough
|education of policy makers to understand the threat."
|
|The mind boggles at such nonsense. But when they start talking about
|"The American Way"* you know they're getting desperate. They'll be
|saying Open Source is a "Socialist Software" plot next.
|
|Luke.
|
|* I guess it depends on exactly *which* American way you're talking
|about... Maybe he means the "Corporate giants crushing all competition
|and stifling innovation" American Way as opposed to the covered wagons,
|ordinary joe makes good through honest hard work and enterprise
|variety.
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| Luke Taylor.
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