Brunswick Integrates Code Expertise (TechWeb)

Posted Sep 1, 2003 19:57 UTC (Mon) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
Parent article: Brunswick Integrates Code Expertise (TechWeb)

I've always thought that this is the most promising comporate model for open source development: non-software companies doing some development because there isn't a cost effective alternative, who then have no reason not to give away the resulting software.

It's somewhat the same motivation that drives a lot of individual developers, but on a larger and better financed scale: the software is created for some reason which has nothing to do with other people, and then released just because it doesn't cost anything to release, and it might have some benefit down the road.