On Wednesday 03 Dec 2008 5:54:02 pm Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > can you confirm that all code produced by Red Hat is opensourced? If so, > > obviously neither the programmer or the company directly gets money out > > of it. > > Let's assume that is true but it still disproves the notion that pure > open source entities are not sustainable. That was shattered by Cygnus > back in 1989. > > http://www.toad.com/gnu/cygnus/index.html
good read - note I am *not* indulging in Red Hat bashing which is the favourite occupation a certain type of person. I am wondering about things like code that is used in-house - does it get open sourced automatically - if not, what is the implication wrt being a FOSS company? My personal business model for whatever business I do is to only accept jobs from customers who agree to open source the code. (of course, the agreement includes a clause that such part of the code that exposes their business secrets will be excluded from open sourcing and also the product open sourced will be a generalised version of what they are using). In such circumstances it is irrelevant to my employees/consultants as to who gets rights in the code. Normally, since the customer has paid for it, the copyright would be his - but since most of the code is anyway copy pasted from other FOSS code, there is very little share of the copyright for the customer. This works fine with the BSD license - I don't even want to think of the implications if the GPL is used. -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
