Hi Bernard, By open-sourcing your work the community gains from your work; however, this generally forms a positive reciprocity loop whereby the community will feed back into your contributions with their own enhancements, ideas, and bug fixes from which you will then benefit.
Cheers, Rob. [email protected] wrote: > We have build many extensions to improve the functionality of MediaWiki. > It is for > Enterprise use as Knowledge management infrastructure. The name of the > extensions and additional > functionality is Wikibox Blue. The software is propriety. > > It can be hosted as SAAS > > Today there has been a request if automatic signing of thread is > possible in the discussion page. > This is standard functionality in WikiForum. Which can be used in the > talk namespace. > > But it is propriety software. So it can not be used. > > My question is here : Please convince me I have to make my propriety > software open source. > > With some conditions : > *I decide if I make Wikibox Blue Open source > *I decide when Wikibox Blue will be Open source > *I decide on which conditions Wikibox Blue will be open source. > > If you respect these conditions please try to convince me I should do > it. Keep in mind it is a > mayor step for me and my company. > > Bernard Hulsman > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
