Brunswick Integrates Code Expertise (TechWeb) [LWN.net]

TechWeb covers an open source project from an unlikely source. "Brunswick Corp., maker of billiard tables, boats, and bowling balls, has produced an open-source code engine to exchange business data over the Internet, and the Securities and Exchange Commission is an early adopter. The SEC will use the engine to feed a system that analyzes stock trades as part of its regulation of insider trading."

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Brunswick Integrates Code Expertise (TechWeb)

Posted Sep 1, 2003 19:57 UTC (Mon) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

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.

Brunswick Integrates Code Expertise (TechWeb)

Posted Sep 1, 2003 23:06 UTC (Mon) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link] (1 responses)

Now wouldn't it be ironic if an open source project flagged up SCO for investigation for
insider trading. :-)

Chris

Brunswick Integrates Code Expertise (TechWeb)

Posted Sep 2, 2003 16:30 UTC (Tue) by ncm (guest, #165) [Link]

No, that wouldn't be ironic. But it would be cool.