On 04/14/2010 12:25 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> --- On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Azhagu selvan <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> | Many small enterprises and college students who wants an efficient
> | project tracking tool, doesn't want to make their source code and
> | project info public - atleast till the project ends.
> \--
>
> Doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of committing early, and often
> to a "Free/Open Source Software" project, and thereby providing your
> changes to everyone for review at an early stage in the project,
> rather than completing a project, and then realizing that there
> already exists another project that has a better design, and that does
> things efficiently?
>   

Yes but nevertheless some companies want to operate in that model.  
Look at Android development for one example of this.  I suspect any
takers of such hosting options would be proprietary companies not having
their own project infrastructure and willing to outsource the
maintenance for cash.

Rahul

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