[Mediawiki-l] Please convince me to make my software open source

[Boris Steipe]

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.



On 18-Jan-10, at 1:21 PM, Bernard at 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 at 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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