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
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.
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