Posted Mar 22, 2008 0:11 UTC (Sat) by chromatic (guest, #26207)
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What did you find objectionable or incorrect in that post?
A tour of the Microsoft open source lab
Posted Mar 22, 2008 7:56 UTC (Sat) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263)
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Objectionable? Nothing.
But the whole "success is sales" metric is clearly not understanding a (at least to me) huge
part of OSS.
A tour of the Microsoft open source lab
Posted Mar 22, 2008 20:07 UTC (Sat) by chromatic (guest, #26207)
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I thought it was clear in the first paragraph that Brett meant to discuss "success" in terms
of business success. In that context, "sales" or "conversions" or "support contracts" seems a
much better metric than "downloads".
That doesn't apply in the case of community-driven projects, but then again neither does
"downloads".