On a similar note to my past email,
QUESTION
What sort of free software (or just computing general) research is
happening in the business community?
For example Dennis Ritchie's work at Bell Labs is very interesting:
http://slug.ctv.es/pub/mirror/LinuxFocus/English/articles/article26.html
Other obvious examples would be the myriad of hackers now employed
by LinuxCare/RedHat/SuSE/etc. But that doesn't seem to be a
sustainable option once more competition appears and the
ideological and community-centred value of having a number of
people on staff doing their own free software development is
outweighed by business realities.
Not that people like Alan Cox, the RedHat development labs, and
the many at LinuxCare are not extremely valuable to a company. But
that as money becomes tighter perhaps they will have less free
reign to develop as they want but doing more of what the company
wants and needs.
Do you think the RedHat Labs will survive long term? The
PythonLabs?
OPTION
An organisation funded by sponsorship from companies (Linux
companies, hardware companies, whatever) interested in free
software development. But detached as much as possible from
developing what the sponsors want, to developing what would be
useful for people.
Has this been done before? There are similar organisations in
a number of other areas but what about technology?
Thanks for listening,
Chuck
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