In my area of work (bioinformatics) I have not seen convincing business models that were based on charging for code. Integration, customization, consulting - yes, it needs a lot of expertise to get that right and people are willing to pay for that expertise. Contributing to the open-source pool advertises your organization's capacity to understand real-world issues and address them in a viable way. $0.02 - B.
On 18-Jan-10, at 1:21 PM, [email protected] wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
