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Corporate Open Source Collaboration? (Clustering Foundries)
Brian Finley
examines how corporate involvment in open source development has
changed things. "Now the individuals working on a project are
doing it because they're told to, they're adding the features that
they're paid to add, and corporations are providing direction to the
developers instead of the individuals being self directing. Sure the
individuals have a certain degree of autonomy, but they must now work
within the scope of the "corporate good" instead of being focused on what
they think would be fun or on what they need to get their own job
done."
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Corporate Open Source Collaboration? (Clustering Foundries) Posted Aug 19, 2002 20:11 UTC (Mon) by lance (guest, #2263) [Link] Good essay.Starts with all the potential arguments against corp. involvement in OSS and then rejects them with analogy and case studies. I believe the next big steps in OSS are going to come from just this scenario, with the majority of software being coded to solve business needs, OSS is the ideal situation for maximizing your development capabilities.
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