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A tour of the Microsoft open source lab
A tour of the Microsoft open source lab
Posted Mar 21, 2008 23:03 UTC (Fri) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263)Parent article: A tour of the Microsoft open source lab
In another post on Port25 they show pretty clearly that they Still Don't Get It. http://port25.technet.com/archive/2008/02/13/why-use-down...
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A tour of the Microsoft open source lab
Posted Mar 22, 2008 0:11 UTC (Sat) by chromatic (subscriber, #26207) [Link]
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) [Link]
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 (subscriber, #26207) [Link]
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".