Interesting. Thanks for the insight, Matt. Alex
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:p2p-hackers- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthew Kaufman > Sent: December 12, 2008 11:20 AM > To: theory and practice of decentralized computer networks > Cc: theory and practice of decentralized computer networks > Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] Adobe Stratus > > Neutral to slightly negative. Because of GPL terms, having it be open- > source didn't help their engineers evaluate it early, as they weren't > allowed to look at the code. Because it was published, valuation of > patentable technology was lower. IF by being open-source more people > had used it, that would have helped, but that wasn't the case. > > Mostly Adobe was buying people and ideas, not existing code, so mostly > it didn't matter. > > The one really good thing about open-sourcing it is that it forced us > to write code that we wouldn't be embarassed by having other people > read, and that helped code quality and permanently improved some of > our coding practices. > > Matthew Kaufman > > (Sent from my iPhone) > > On Dec 12, 2008, at 8:49 AM, zooko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the notes on your experience getting your ideas deployed. > > > > Would you say that having published the GPL'ed version of MFP helped > > you get the deal with Adobe? Or would you have been just as > > successful with Adobe if MFP had been closed-source? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Zooko > > --- > > http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem > > http://allmydata.com -- back up all your files for $10/month > > _______________________________________________ > > p2p-hackers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
