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Convincing Your Superiors to GPL the Code?

Posted by Cliff on from the why-not? dept.

jakobgrimstveit asks: "At work I've been developing an intranet/extranet portal framework in PHP based on many other peoples work, including quite a few PEAR modules. I've always wanted to release the coding framework as GPL and publish it on SourceForge, and my boss has - impressively enough - not been too negative about this. This has been going around in the organization for quite a while now, and finally the reply from the company's president was (not surprisingly): 'Why should we do so?' I now have the task of writing a document listing the main reasons for GPLing the code, and this is where I turn to the highly competent Slashdot crowd: How do I convince my bosses to GPL the code I've written? I assume many other developers have the same problems trying to convince their bosses to open up their code."

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  1. hahahaha by heinousjay · · Score: 5, Funny

    the highly competent Slashdot crowd

    Oh, sure, them. We'll just wait for them to get here...

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  2. Who, us? by elemental23 · · Score: 3, Funny

    highly competent Slashdot crowd

    It's funny, laugh!

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  3. Sources of advice by NitsujTPU · · Score: 2, Funny

    I now have the task of writing a document listing the main reasons for GPLing the code, and this is where I turn to the highly competent Slashdot crowd

    Well, that was your first mistake.

  4. Re:Tell them your reasons by heinousjay · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I were granted mod points, I would mod you Evil.

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  5. Re:Tell them your reasons by stinerman · · Score: 4, Funny

    -1 ... you didn't use "synergy".

  6. Re:Tell them your reasons by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 2, Funny
    Difficult to present a sales pitch only knowing what we want to achieve, and not having any inkling of the steps inbetween.

    You must be new here. Everyone knows the step before "Profit!" is:

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