Vendor Pays OSS Developers for Enterprise Support

Anonymous Coward writes "eWeek is reporting that a company called OpenLogic is paying qualified experts in the open-source community to provide enterprise support for projects they are intimately familiar with. OpenLogic calls its new initiative its Expert Community program."

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Bollocks

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

Horsecrap - I can't see that quote anywhere in TFA or openlogic's press release

The press release says in fact:

Through the OpenLogic Expert Community, OpenLogic will pay qualified experts within the open source development community to provide in-depth support for open source products.

and:

In addition to paying members of the OpenLogic Expert Community to resolve enterprise issues, OpenLogic will also contribute money for each issue resolved to a fund that will be used to help further open source efforts.

And (slightly offtopic, but put more elequontly & humorously then the usual 'blah blah, oss has noone to sue'):

"We have heard loud and clear from our larger enterprise customers, some of whom are using more than 400 open source products, that they want one throat to choke for open source support," said Steven Grandchamp, CEO of OpenLogic.

You sir, are a shill from one of the proprietary companies, trembling in their boots about new business models.

Re:Bollocks

[GigsVT]

1 point is $1. You get $100 for resolving an "incident" that they claim will generally take less than 4 hours.

So $25 an hour or more. Not exactly inspiring, but not bad either, especially if it was shit you were going to fix in the next release anyway.

Wow, redundant *and* wrong!

[Anonymous Coward]

Look a bit further through their website. You'll also find the FAQ which states that these "points" can be redeemed for cash. 100+ points/incident, 1 point = $1. So if you want the cash, that's $100/incident.