John Guenther wrote: >For whatever my opinion may or may not be worth, I think well enough >should be left alone. EMC2 seems to be moving along just fine without >the 'commercial' headaches! It seems to me that EMC2 is being developed >by some dedicated hard working people that are more interested in making >it right than in making money from it. Maybe some day development can >split into a quasi commercial product and an open source product much >like the Linux world but I am not sure that day has come yet. > > Heh. Thanks for the sentiment.
Look at the Linux commercial model: The kernel itself is completely free. Some companies hire people to make changes they think are good. If the "community" (ie, Linus) thinks it's good, it gets incorporated into the mainline kernel. If not, the company has to maintain their own patches to the kernel. So a company like RedHat then charges people for documentation, support, and packaging to pay their programmers. A model like that could work fine for EMC2, except that we don't have anywhere near the userbase of the kernel itself. Luckily, the customers of "RHEmc megacorp" are used to paying a lot more for their software than the average joe (who thinks it's free with the computer), so there's room to hire people with a much smaller customer base. It's still quite iffy, as Alex pointed out. You never know how long people will want to buy expensive programs. - Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
