Comments on: Increasing Ecosystem Co-operation

By: Dave Neary

Dave Neary — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:22:55 +0000

Happy to mention it! It was a nice piece of work. I especially like the way you laid out the graphed data for each project

By: Pia Waugh

Pia Waugh — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:58:13 +0000

Thanks for the mention Dave, I’m glad the paper was useful for you!

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451 CAOS Theory » 451 CAOS Links 2009.01.02 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:24:53 +0000

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By: Stormy

Stormy — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:24:43 +0000

To complicate this all further is the fact that we live in an age of outsourcing. Most companies are convinced that it’s cheaper and more effective to focus on their core value add and to outsource all IT.

So if it comes down to a hire a maintainer or not do it, more often than not management will not do it.

So that’s another reason open source software work comes from the bottom up. IT and developer folks know they won’t get the ok to spend time working with the community. However, if they just do it, the company often sees that it’s worth it.

By: Simon Phipps

Simon Phipps — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:10:42 +0000

Great post, Dave. You may also be interested in my own response to the 451 Group blog.