On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 07:28, Nico Morrison<[email protected]> wrote: > MySQL since it's acquisition by Oracle/Sun doesn't seem a good example. I > do not know the others listed in the academic article. Donation models do > not count. >
In the Ruby community, the core developers of JRuby were employed from 2006 through 2009. Now they are employed by Engine Yard, a Ruby on Rails hosting company. At least one IronRuby developer is employed by Microsoft. Mono has been heavily supported by Novell, I think. This would seem to be the primary method of doing open source commercially: large companies finding that having certain projects mature and production-ready are beneficial to selling servers or operating systems or IDEs or whatever it is they sell, so employ the people who work on those projects to make them better. This is sort of a 'donation model', but donation doesn't have quite the same connotation as a full-time employed position. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
