Respondants seem glad at this announcement because it means this software is now free (beer).
This is inevitable, because the software has already been developed, and so there is no development benefit to be gained using the superior(?) open source methodology.
It would be a bit more interesting for us open source agnostics if some company announced that it was planning to develop something new, as an open source project - not just dumping some huge source base for open source maintenance....
'Cause I guess that I reckon Open Source is a lousy method to create good new software, but a decent way to maintain something, especially once you don't want to do so yourself.
Excellent points both of these. I don't think "free source" will have much of an impact on enterprise solutions, also because an enterprise project don't produce something that more than one user can benefit from ("software") so much as a "system" tailored for one user.
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Respondants seem glad at this announcement because it means this software is now free (beer).
This is inevitable, because the software has already been developed, and so there is no development benefit to be gained using the superior(?) open source methodology.
It would be a bit more interesting for us open source agnostics if some company announced that it was planning to develop something new, as an open source project - not just dumping some huge source base for open source maintenance....
'Cause I guess that I reckon Open Source is a lousy method to create good new software, but a decent way to maintain something, especially once you don't want to do so yourself.
Excellent points both of these. I don't think "free source" will have much of an impact on enterprise solutions, also because an enterprise project don't produce something that more than one user can benefit from ("software") so much as a "system" tailored for one user.