Open Source programmers working for free are working on projects that they choose to do not projects that some marketeer has asked them to do. It appears to me that what you are suggesting is like having a carpenter that chooses to work for free on Habitat for Humanity Homes and then someone expecting them to build a house for them at $3 per hour because they built that other one for nothing.
If we do not think outside of the box for this project it will be here`s the new boss the same as the old boss.
- Nova
If we do not think outside of the box for this project it will be here`s the new boss the same as the old boss.
- Nova
Sorry I thought the point was to bring people, who want to fund open source projects, together with people, who understand how to make use of all the open source stuff already out there to make them happen.
There is a big difference between the skill set and the mindset of a person who develops proprietary software for a company and someone who develops Open Source software. The latter is generally more enabled than the former as you would expect
A business will still want a proprietary solution no matter how cheap the Open Source developers are. Its the intellectual property rights plus the potential for growth that gets the investment. I am trying to find a way around this issue at the moment but unless you are already well established or the software is only a facilitator like a word processor, IPRs are a big deal to conventional investors (an asset that can be sold if all goes bad).
ThinkI