13 Feb
2002
13 Feb
'02
7:16 p.m.
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.
--Brett Glass