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Open Source: Where's the money? | by Didactylos | 2003-08-23 07:33:37 |
| I can't understand why more companies, |
by pecosdave |
2003-08-23 09:08:31 |
maybe even government agencies (any government, not just US) don't bring an opensource project inhouse. A week or two ago I read where Disney and several competing movie companies worked together to get WINE working well enough to run Photoshop properly. Here's an idea, why don't the companies hire and donate employees to the Gimp project? Make the Gimp in they way they want it. While they're at it they could donate money/employees to a couple of movie editor projects to.
Millions of companies use MS Office, Millions of Companies complain that it cost to much (or pirate it). Here's and idea. Switch to OpenOffice.org and donate 1/4 of what you would have spent to the OpenOffice.org project. In large corporations 1/4 of what they spend on MS Office could hire an entire team of 20 developers. I don't care if they keep the developers onsite or if they send them to some central location. Not to mention having your own employees on the inside of a project like that means you get to call the shots on what comes next. Need something done in the product thats not yet? Want something to work slightly differently or need a feature thats not around yet? Tell your employees to make it happen. It benefits EVERYONE and you get exactly what you want. If you're donating that much to a project I don't think the community will mind the project doing a couple of favors in turn. I think it would be great to be able to be able to have the features I want inserted into commerical grade apps. Imagine what would happen if more than one company was donating money and developers to a project? The thought of what the Gimp could become just makes me giddy.
Remember, not only are corporations getting what they want, but they're saving 75% of what they would have spent on software in the end. Sure individuals and other companies will benefit without giving anything, but thats just the way it works.
The problem with opensource isn't the lack of potential jobs, it's the lack of perception of potential. |
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OpenOffice... | by LionsPhil | 2003-08-23 09:13:51 |
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100's of reasons | by pecosdave | 2003-08-23 09:24:05 |
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"Only" 35 seconds? | by LionsPhil | 2003-08-23 09:38:38 |
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