[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSXCE

[Nikola M.]

On 09/ 8/14 11:07 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> His mood about the ability of both sides to collaborate did fluctuate over time, but the last I heard from his blog, he did intend to push his sources into the public space. Ne is just wary that more commercialy apt sharks would take his multi-year and multi-dollar investment baby, for granted and for free, earn money for themselves and leave him on the curb
One can not protect personal time and work investment in free software 
projects that way,
but with developing in open and in continuing collaborative effort.
Best way of protecting your work actually and keep derived work able to 
be used is to be publicly visible with changes, so no one can tell it is 
anyone else's contribution, but yours.

Word is that people tend to buy support contracts from people that know 
their stuff and that can fix things for people using software products 
used in production.

One of things that lure people in using free software and software 
developed with open source model,
is that there is not a single party that can produce working product out 
of code.
On contrary, that right is explicitly allowed to the end user/customer 
with all benefits of being able to change software you are using to 
better fit yourself.

Martin is simply wrong with not releasing and developing in open.
it's obviously not doing it any good nor for anyone else. Not to mention 
licenses for software require code to be released on every binary 
release to _anyone_.

In other words, when asking: What's first, chicken or an egg? Answer is 
truly: a Chick.