LiMo white paper: Mobile open source economic analysis

The LiMo Foundation has published an interesting white paper [PDF] on the economic value of working with the development community. "The cost of forking and losing connection with upstream development is twofold: i) the corresponding cost of presumed beneficial unleveraged potential, ii) the further cost of having to re-engineer modified forked code in the future to accommodate the inevitable eventual re-sync with upstream. We quantified the former to show that the figures run into $millions for important components such as GTK, WebKit, GStreamer and BlueZ." (By way of Dave Neary).

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