Also: in the information-based economy, an increasingly important part of the revenue of your activities is "mind-share". No better way to demonstrate your expertise to the world than to contribute something useful. B.
On 18-Jan-10, at 11:46 AM, Robert Cummings wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
