On Don, 2015-03-26 at 17:01 +0200, Andreas Kasenides wrote:
On 26/03/15 13:05, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 16:08 +0200, Andreas Kasenides wrote:
I am usually emotionally (at least) against of open-source projects loosing their independence to large corporations. Possibly due to bad OX-AG is a "large corporation"? Did I miss something?
Kind regards, Bernd
I have no idea how large is OX-AG. That is not what I said anyway. At
Well, at least somewhat implicated IMHO.
least not what I meant. ;-) Fair enough!
I was trying to emphasize large or larger commercial entities trying to take advantage of the OSS community. Which happened many times in the past.
Yes, there were some not-so-promising "take overs" but there were also others.
IMHO the larger the corporation is, the less are the chances for *long-term* benefits of the OSS/free software (mainly because: usually commercial success is driven and defined from marketing to sales[1] sown to the techies which are forced into "features" and "delivery dates" to achieve some "company defined goal" - and that is usually not "bug free", "safe", or the like. Free software/OSS just happens that *at least* half of it should come from the "working level" and that is - at least - much more - ahemm - "inconvenient" for sales people).
Bernd[1]: Sorry, but some "pre-sales techies" which are not really involved in the technical realization afterwards are just an excuse for the sales department.
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