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."

Comments

Re:Are you sure?

[dietrollemdefender]

Common, dude! This is nothing less than a transparent scheme to get highly qualified persons work for free. Why does this remind me of IBM and Linux?

And, Goddamn Richard Stallman! Him and His "software needs to be free" !

yEAH, Yeah, He doesn't mean that software should be given away - but, tell that to all those "free software" folks out there!

Please!, you F/OSS folks! Take pride in your skills! CHARGE - at least SOMETHING for your work! YOU are creating a supply that is outweighing demand - READ up on your ECONOMICS!!!

Re:Rebutting the myths

[Directrix1]

Hey you know you're right. Compared to the competition, open source is just a waste of time. Well, I mean as long as you ignore the gentle down slope of microsoft stock and rapid rise of red hat stock. I wish I would have invested in redhat earlier this year, I would have tripled my money. Additionally, you completely ignore the fact that open source is not so much a provided service, as much as a cooperative venture. Company's don't buy open source software like closed source software. If the company is smart, they buy into open source software: tack a couple devs onto some projects, and cooperatively guide the open source hand to render something useful for all involved, at a fraction of the cost of purchasing proprietary software or doing software development from scratch. I'm sorry but to say that open source software is an unproven model, is to underestimate the very meaning of open source software. That meaning is synergy. Not the buzzword, but an actual practical application of parrallel interests which exponentially accelerates the progress of software development, and diminishes the cost of software maintenance by a similar degree.