[Ilugc] Is the proprietary camp winning ?
- From: goda.abishek@xxxxxxxxx (Ingeneur)
- Date: Sat Oct 14 10:31:59 2006
I vote for the 'proprietery is evil' camp.
A business spends on capital investment, salaries & wages and other expenses
(marketing etc) and earns by selling their products
A. How a OSS company can pay developers?
1. When a company starts developing open source software they get an
existing code base FREE. Without that they would be investing big money to
buil the base of their software.
Not to debate. But give a moment's thought to this. I have a company,
not a software company, say. I need s/w to run my business. In today's
world, I should be outsourcing it to other s/w companies. But I
still have my team of s/w people who work with/interface with the
outsourcing company. If the same code is there in OSS, I can employ my
people to fix/customize the gpl'ed code to my need. Can I not? Will it
not be cheaper than outsourcing? *The dispute is not about outsourcing
being right/wrong*. Then why will the OSS company survive? No, I am
not disputing your idea.
That will reduce the number of areas you can concentrate as an OSS
company. More people trying to work on lesser areas breeds competition
and some will have to go *evil*? Correct me, if i am wrong.
2. Now, the company can afford to give away modifications since their
initial investment is low compared to a closed source company.
Isnt this also called forking? Maybe it isnt. I have much lesser
knowledge on this.
A business failing or being successful depends on many other factors than
whether their model is closed source or open source.
Sure.
Closed source model played its part in evolving software industry. With the
advent of internet that lost its relevance, and is being slowly replaced by
the OSS model. This is what I feel.
A very positive analysis and a great one to read.
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Regards,
Abishek Goda
http://goda.abishek.googlepages.com
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