Seth Cohn wrote:
> > Anything worth doing has to pay back more than $250/hour.
>
> What about support costs? If it's poorly written, it costs way more than
> $250 to support.
But who pays for that support? At SGI, our execs loved to remind us
that support was often the company's most profitable division. At
my current employer, the model is different -- we sell professional
services, so the harder it is to install, the more proserv we sell.
But we do pay for bugs ourselves.
> Redhat's rushing has caused quite a few serious security holes, much to
> everyone's concern. Not very many commericial open source vendors right
> now to look at.... are there?
I've identified 18 companies who have paid employees developing open
source projects. (I know, I'm missing some. Send 'em my way, I'm
going to be job-shopping soon, and this is my long list.)
O'Reilly
Jabber
Eazel
Helix
VA Linux
Red Hat
Bynari
Collab.Net/SourceExchange
W3C Amaya project
Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow (www.mad-scientist.com)
Mandrakesoft
Zero Knowledge Systems
Transvirtual (pocket linux)
Monta Vista (www.mvista.com)
Lutris
Steeleye Technology
WireX
IBM
> > PS: Subversion is cool! http://subversion.tigris.org/ (Oh, okay,
> > it's vaporware, but it's GONNA BE cool! (-: )
>
> very neat. CVS is really lacking for some things....
I submitted a bugfix to subversion tonight. I'm trying to come up
to speed on the whole project.
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