On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Brett Glass wrote: > At 12:09 PM 2/13/2002, Paul Millar wrote: > > >This is the crux of the issue. What if the business model relies upon > >retaining the IP-rights associated with the in-house written code? There > >the cost/benefit balance would be tipped towards non-disclosure. > > It's hard to conceive of a rational business model that did not recognize > the advantage of offloading maintenance of non-strategic code to an > open source team.
True for non-strategic code, but what about _strategic_ code (strategic in the sense that the business model assumes the retention of IP-rights). If this is based on BSD-licensed code then there is no incentive to release the code back to the community. -- Paul.
