Boris Steipe wrote:
In my area of work (bioinformatics) I have not seen
convincing
business models that were based on charging for code. Integration,
customization, consulting - yes, it needs a lot of expertise to get
that right and people are willing to pay for that expertise.
Contributing to the open-source pool advertises your organization's
capacity to understand real-world issues and address them in a viable
way.
$0.02 - B.
Boris, I am not thinking about charging for code. There must be a
barrier between Open Source and SAAS. But this barrier does not need to
be charging money.
For developers your argument is correct. I am not a developer. I am an
architect who design the software and the developer programs it. The
developer get paid for his work. It is my ownership, my (Open Source)
copyright.
On details I am not the best person to go to. If there is a bug the
developer can solve it better. But for the big architecture I am the one
who does the design. And if I am not there the work can continue for a
few months and then its stuck.
So as a business model this does not work for me.
With regards Bernard
On 18-Jan-10, at 1:21 PM, Bernard(a)bernardHulsman.nl wrote:
Boris Steipe wrote:
Also: in the information-based economy, an
increasingly important
part of the revenue of your activities is "mind-share". No better way
to demonstrate your expertise to the world than to contribute
something useful.
B.
Boris. Thanks. That is indeed a good argument. But then I must be
able
to show that my expertise is indeed my expertise. My company is
Wikiation. The bundle extensions is named Wikibox Blue. The
copyright is
and should stay mine!. That is. It can be GPL or an other Open Source
license what I chose. If I should loose that then I should loose
everything. I lost exclusive ownership of the software and I loose to
demonstrate my expertise.
Regards, Bernard
On 18-Jan-10, at 11:46 AM, Robert Cummings
wrote:
Hi Bernard,
By open-sourcing your work the community gains from your work;
however,
this generally forms a positive reciprocity loop whereby the
community
will feed back into your contributions with their own enhancements,
ideas, and bug fixes from which you will then benefit.
Cheers,
Rob.
Bernard(a)bernardHulsman.nl wrote:
> We have build many extensions to improve the functionality of
> MediaWiki.
> It is for
> Enterprise use as Knowledge management infrastructure. The name of
> the
> extensions and additional
> functionality is Wikibox Blue. The software is propriety.
>
> It can be hosted as SAAS
>
> Today there has been a request if automatic signing of thread is
> possible in the discussion page.
> This is standard functionality in WikiForum. Which can be used
> in the
> talk namespace.
>
> But it is propriety software. So it can not be used.
>
> My question is here : Please convince me I have to make my
> propriety
> software open source.
>
> With some conditions :
> *I decide if I make Wikibox Blue Open source
> *I decide when Wikibox Blue will be Open source
> *I decide on which conditions Wikibox Blue will be open source.
>
> If you respect these conditions please try to convince me I
> should do
> it. Keep in mind it is a
> mayor step for me and my company.
>
> Bernard Hulsman
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