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Imagine a simple market (if you're wincing already, I'm right there with you, but you asked for this right?). There are 100 customers, and two products. The pro
by rictic 14y ago
Imagine a simple market (if you're wincing already, I'm right there with you, but you asked for this right?). There are 100 customers, and two products. The products are interchangeable, save for the performance of their bloom filters.
This is a zero sum game from the perspective of the two companies providing the products.
- dfc 14y agoThanks for responding. I'm afraid my question was unclear. This was supposed to be an answer to how could contributing to an open source project be a zero sum game? You did not define what the open source project was and or the companies rationales fopr consoidering contributions to be zero-sum or otherwise.
- rictic 14y agoIf we further assume that the two companies who produce the two products only produce those products, then for those two companies it's zero sum for them to contribute in good faith to open source bloom filters. Any gain that one company gets in the quality of their bloom filter is likely to translate directly into fewer customers for the other. It isn't globally zero-sum, notably the users of these companies' products are presumably better off, as are other software projects and their users who might benefit from any improvements made to open source bloom filters.