Sorry tom Morris, I agree with you - I meant donation models are not counted in the academic paper by Dirk Riehle AFAIK.
I personally think donations are the way to go and that small is beautiful. I LIKE the idea of people writing the Linux kernel code outside of company hours. I am appalled that a coder can approve his or her own patch. Interesting stuff. Regards, Nico Morrison 2009/8/20 Tom Morris <[email protected]> > 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]/ >
