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Wrong paradigm

Posted Dec 9, 2004 11:19 UTC (Thu) by freddyh (subscriber, #21133)
In reply to: Wrong paradigm by zooko
Parent article: The Linux roadmap

On the other hand: the competitor has probably fixed or changed some stuff as well. Or you could learn from how they put their system together. I don't agree that the first does not gain anything from helping his competitor.

Yours,
FreddyH

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Wrong paradigm

Posted Dec 9, 2004 11:40 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]

I agree that the first company may benefit from the second company somehow. However, that benefit is not a consequence of the first company contributing to the open source software. The first company would have gotten that benefit just as well while withholding their contribution.

Wrong paradigm

Posted Dec 9, 2004 12:24 UTC (Thu) by nedrichards (guest, #23295) [Link]

But they'd have also gained a substaintial and ongoing cost of maintaining an out oif tree patch. This is generally unacceptable, especially for companies where software development isn't a core competancy. Much better to let others do the maintenance of your needed feature for you.