At 11:31 AM 2/8/02 -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
Perhaps a simple economic analysis would help to assuage those egos.
Hey, I never thought about it this way, but I must agree that your analysis is an interesting and valid viewpoint... Helped me a lot to see things from another point of view.
Just want to add why it is in the interest of the Company to contribute code back: this is to prevent the codebases from drifting away too much. If this happens, the company will no longer be able to benefit from the Open Wine codebase...
Roland