Is there a list of companies or people who profitably develop free
software? Ones I can think of have gone to a pay model, like Red Hat.
MySQL since it's acquisition by Oracle/Sun doesn't seem a good example. I
do not know the others listed in the academic article. Donation models do
not count.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 07:28, Nico Morrisonmicroni...@gmail.com wrote:
MySQL since it's acquisition by Oracle/Sun doesn't seem a good example. I
do not know the others listed in the academic article. Donation models do
not count.
In the Ruby community, the core developers of JRuby were
Sorry tom Morris, I agree with you - I meant donation models are not counted
in the academic paper by Dirk Riehle AFAIK.
I personally think donations are the way to go and that small is beautiful.
I LIKE the idea of people writing the Linux kernel code outside of company
hours. I am appalled that
Nico Morrison wrote:
I LIKE the idea of people writing the Linux kernel code
outside of company hours.
Does anyone do this?
From What I can see here: www.cs.tut.fi/~tta/demography.pdf
(Specifically sections 5 and 6) a few must, but a considerable number
appear to be *large* companies.
I
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Nico Morrison
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Nico Morrison wrote:
I LIKE the idea of people writing the Linux kernel code outside of
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net wrote:
Nico Morrison wrote:
I LIKE the idea of people writing the Linux kernel code outside of company
hours.
Does anyone do this?
From What I can see here: www.cs.tut.fi/~tta/demography.pdf (Specifically
sections 5 and 6) a
Oops, posted empty early heh - sorry, BUT!
Go to
http://blogs.computerworld.com/14576/who_writes_linux_big_business?page=1and
scroll down to a Comment submitted by Michael Geiser
snip
- It looks like many developers are also reviewers. I'd be VERY concerned if
the developers are allowed to
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