Boris Steipe wrote: > 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. > Boris. Thanks. That is indeed a good argument. But then I must be able to show that my expertise is indeed my expertise. My company is Wikiation. The bundle extensions is named Wikibox Blue. The copyright is and should stay mine!. That is. It can be GPL or an other Open Source license what I chose. If I should loose that then I should loose everything. I lost exclusive ownership of the software and I loose to demonstrate my expertise.
Regards, Bernard > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
