It's great to see movie houses coming to the realization that sharing development tasks helps everyone; I hope people in other industries come to this realization too.
I've worked at several companies now where I saw a tremendous amount of effort invested in developing custom, proprietary solutions to relatively common problems outside the company's primary business domain. (In some cases, this meant duplicating the exact functionality of existing free software.) Since ten programmers can't outdo a thousand, inevitably the result was buggy, half-baked work that the rest of us employees had to limp along with, or find workarounds for.
Keep the software that drives your core business proprietary, if you like; but why not co-operate on all the non-core stuff that merely keeps the business going? It just makes sense.
There must be plenty of computer store owners who sell PCs bundled with Windows and who also read Slashdot. It would be helpful if they could post (anonymously, even) what *they* pay to provide a copy of Windows with their systems; this way we could all know what sort of refund to expect so we don't sell ourselves short.
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Nonsense. We'll be far too busy learning Mandarin for that.
Where can we download the videos?
I'm referring to the example Sean gives in the article of OpenEXR.
But I'll grant you that I am perhaps indulging in a bit of wishful thinking.
It's great to see movie houses coming to the realization that sharing development tasks helps everyone; I hope people in other industries come to this realization too.
I've worked at several companies now where I saw a tremendous amount of effort invested in developing custom, proprietary solutions to relatively common problems outside the company's primary business domain. (In some cases, this meant duplicating the exact functionality of existing free software.) Since ten programmers can't outdo a thousand, inevitably the result was buggy, half-baked work that the rest of us employees had to limp along with, or find workarounds for.
Keep the software that drives your core business proprietary, if you like; but why not co-operate on all the non-core stuff that merely keeps the business going? It just makes sense.
There must be plenty of computer store owners who sell PCs bundled with Windows and who also read Slashdot. It would be helpful if they could post (anonymously, even) what *they* pay to provide a copy of Windows with their systems; this way we could all know what sort of refund to expect so we don't sell ourselves short.
Anyone?