Hello Don, DC Parris wrote:
>Greetings! > >I am responding to an article that claims Microsoft invests $50b/year in >R&D - as if the libre software community doesn't invest in R&D. I believe >it does. Can the OOo team help me quantify what gets invested in R&D? I >am also contacting some other major projects, but would like to get some >input from the folks at OOo. > > I think you may want to differentiate between hard budget spending in the context of a corporate R&D effort and the way "R&D" wors in FOSS communities. You can for instance ask to Sun, Novell, or Red Hat how much they are spending for desktop Linux (OOo only would be too narrow for real R&D), but that would really be the visible edge of the iceberg. Also, note that "innovation happens elsewhere" and that many new successful FOSS projects started out of nothing and became funded and populated by people paid by companies. I think Beagle is a good example of that, but I may be wrong. Hope this helps, Charles. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
