It's actually good to make some advertisement for Isis. Open Source has no problem with the side effect of shameless self promotion - that's part of it ;)
Most people don't get it that you cannot make huge amounts of money with OSS - but you can _safe_ tons of money by using OSS, because you not only share your idea but you also share your 'problems and challenges'. It's simply better to develop tools together and share the effort. The original writers get a lot free 'testers' which usually provide feedback. And users which dig into it deeper should try to get involved in those projects because it's a real benefit for them by having the chance to fix their problems in almost no time! There is NO software product out in the wild which has no bugs at all. By getting involved a committer can just fix those bugs him/herself and make sure that this will be part of the next official release. The alternative to this approach is to plaster your own code with workarounds (like we have been used to do with M$ tooled projects). But after a few years you will not even know which part of your code is really necessary and which is only a workaround for a bug which is long time gone... Thing is that successful projects with a big contributor base create a low entry barrier for new committers. It's for example really easy to write a maven plugin - as a direct result, maven has 100++ active committers. 2nd observation: successful projects most times have a SPI or another mechanism to easily 'extend' their functionality. This makes it easier to adopt new ideas and people have an easy path to becoming a core committer. LieGrue, strub --- On Sat, 4/23/11, Dan Haywood <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Dan Haywood <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Dan's interview on InfoQ > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, April 23, 2011, 10:48 AM > Apols for the self-promotion, but my > little interview on InfoQ [1] has > attracted a very nice comment by a chap by the name of > Christian Schuhegger. > > Hopefully we'll see him here! > > Cheers > Dan > > [1] http://www.infoq.com/articles/haywood-ddd-no > > On 06/04/2011 03:25, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: > > Way to go Dan ;) - [1]. > > > > [1] - http://www.infoq.com/articles/haywood-ddd-no > > >
