An excellent book that tells the FOSS story and explores its value
propositions and business models is 'The Success of Open Source' by
Steven Weber, who writes from the perspective of an 'outsider', a
political scientist.
Gavin
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Dave Patton wrote:
Howard Butler wrote:
Most of OSGeo's measurable successes to date have been volunteer
efforts, not primarily financially-backed ones. The OSGeo Journal
effort, Google Summer of Code administration, the Geodata committee's
efforts, and even much of our system
Sean Gillies wrote:
Dave Patton wrote:
The actual dollar number that you come up with will depend on various
factors, but you can argue that both the 500+ registrants for the
conference, and the conference's Sponsors/Exhibitors are all
contributing financially to OSGeo.
I'm contributing
Sean Gillies wrote:
I'm contributing financially to OSGeo? How much? I don't remember
reading anywhere on the conference website that the event is about OSGeo
revenue.
Sean,
Relax, the conference sponsors are effectively subsidizing attendies. If
the conference makes a small profit, then it
Howard Butler wrote:
Open source software works because people acting in their own self
interest have the auxiliary benefit of helping everyone in the project.
Report your pet bug, file a patch, add a new feature -- all of these
things immediately help you, but ultimately help the project.
dear Howard, thanks for your email which has been along with its
responses very thought-provoking,
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 10:18:36PM -0700, Dave Patton wrote:
Howard Butler wrote:
Most of OSGeo's measurable successes to date have been volunteer
efforts, not primarily financially-backed ones.
Hi all,
all that has happened is, for the benefit of developing world, where
GIS hitherto has limited itself to the glass facades of multinational companies,
and is only meant for those who can afford.
The Pune exercise is one of the pioneer effort in this direction
