The 'Low ~Profit' Model is interesting in this regard also http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/08/whats-keeping-news-organizations-from-trying-the-low-profit-model/
Should apply to open-source software development even better in some ways. Regards, NMM 2009/8/20 Nico Morrison <[email protected]> > 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]/ >> > >
