LiMo white paper: Mobile open source economic analysis
LiMo white paper: Mobile open source economic analysis
Posted Sep 19, 2009 7:06 UTC (Sat) by dneary (guest, #55185)Parent article: LiMo white paper: Mobile open source economic analysis
@ledow: The main point that Mal wanted to get across is that if you build a product or platform off old versions of software (GTK+, WebKit and GStreamer were not chosen by accident) you're missing out on new features and bug fixes, and they're worth a lot in active community projects. You're also going to have the pain of catching up & trying to merge you own fork into the newer version after 2 years of independent evolution, and this also costs a lot. Mal only puts a dollar figure (via COCOMO) on the delta between a fork point 2 years ago and now for the projects he examined. I thought it was interesting.
