Miles Fidelman wrote:
Keep in mind that this is a thread on the BUSINESS side of TiddlyWiki
- starting from Eric's statement about finding a way to get paid for
some of his TiddlyWiki work, and then Jeremy's posts about going out
on his own and focusing on "making TiddlyWiki good."
My comments have been offered as feedback in the context of open
source business models - what it takes for a Drupal or CouchDB to
survive and thrive as a platform, complete with a model for supporting
a core group of developers, and a model for attracting and maintaining
a larger development and user community - and what needs to happen for
TiddlyWiki to move into that league.
IMHO, Tiddly has (or at least had) the potential to become a pretty
serious platform, for a wide range of stand-alone, single page
applications. A lot of my comments have been motivated by working on a
project where I would really like to have used TiddlyWiki as a jumping
off point – and just finding too many obstacles in the way - leading
to our conclusion that we're probably better off going our own way (if
our project gets funded for Phase II).
I probably should add: What's really somewhat disappointing is that
Osmosoft, purports to be "a small team of developers at BT
<http://bt.com> who primarily make Web based collaboration tools
<javascript:;>. These tools are used by Osmosoft in products
<javascript:;> developed for BT, and in engagements <javascript:;> with
BT customers and independent organizations."
Small team, in a bigger enterprise, with business needs driving a piece
of software – that's been a pretty good recipe for launching an open
source project with long-term "legs" (e.g., Postfix, Zope, Erlang).
(The other environment that tends to generate open source projects with
long-term viability is academia - e.g., Apache's origins as the NCSA web
daemon, Mozilla, Sendmail.
Miles Fidelman
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