[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI roadmap (for production)

[Nikola M]

On 12/ 7/15 06:48 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
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> I think there needs to be some change that provides for a clear way for businesses to account for donations to open source organizations and developers.  Right now, from what I've seen mentioned before, typical accounting departments have difficulty finding a legitimate reason or category to spend for something that doesn't strictly require it, even if it could be argued that it would enable valuable improvements in support.

If you are not finding reasons, organisation ends up spending milions on 
vendor lock-in. Not tough choice.

As I understand all that is always needed, is one man to decide that 
change should happen in businesses.
It seems to me that changes are more needed inside businesses and their 
accountings and that contribution paths are always much more easy to 
find, then to start them inside a business organisation.

One can argue that maintaining open projects, that also became your own 
projects by contributing to them,
is much more valuable then pooring money into someone else's pocket, who 
doesn't bring to the company the source and control back.