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The most recent issue of the Norwegian ComputerWorld contains several articles of interest from an open-source point of view. In addition, the subject has come up for discussion at work recently.
Who benefits from open-source? Primarily, it is the consumers of software. Yet the consumers of ... Continue reading »
Who benefits from open-source? Primarily, it is the consumers of software. Yet the consumers of ... Continue reading »
3 years ago
I think in general it would be better for the industry as a whole for "consumers" of open source to contribute more back. Yet there are many reasons that doesn't happen so much--not least of them, the IP issues. (For example, we would not want any contributions to Spring that could potentially have unclear IP issues.) I think the issue of advantaging competitors is not so significant--very often, useful contributions are quite generic, like the frameworks themselves. Clearly it would be unreasonable, for example, to expect a company that implemented one of its core business algorithms as an extension of Spring to open that up to its rivals.
But of course using the framework and reporting bugs/suggesting improvements on mailing lists/issue trackers is an important contribution in itself. It is *definitely* short-sighted to be a "silent" user of any project, open source or commercial: not in your interests or anyone else's.
Rgds
Rod
3 years ago
Thanks for contributing.
I am wondering if you could provide further information or references to the IP issues you refer to. Are these organizational issues (for example: An individual contributor haven't cleared the issues with his employer)?
~Johannes