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Come on. That's a silly theoritical argument. Dump 10MB of source code on the users and see if they bother to fix it or just move on to something else. If you
by axod 17y ago
Come on. That's a silly theoritical argument.
Dump 10MB of source code on the users and see if they bother to fix it or just move on to something else.
If your customers are also programmers who don't mind going through other peoples code, then possibly.
- davidw 17y agoThe first scenario happens quite regularly. As for the second scenario, it happens quite often too, just that it's less visible: the software is still there, people use it, just that it doesn't get all the work it could because the main developer(s) have to make ends meet in other ways. Nothing 'theoretical' about it, it's something many open source developers face, and is, in part, why there's such a big hullabaloo around Mysql: Monty doesn't think it's possible to pay for (enough?) developers if they don't sell GPL exceptions. Of course he's angling to get back control of the project too, for free, using the European Union as his hit man, but that's another topic. In any case, paying for open source development is absolutely not a solved problem.