[IAEP] Working with a commercial entity.

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 02:13:34AM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>El Mon, 17-05-2010 a las 18:19 -0400, Martin Langhoff escribió:
>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
>> <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>> > "Done critically, creatively, and transparently, voluntary free 
>> > software projects
>>
>> There is a bit of misdirection in there. Projects are rarely defined 
>> as a "voluntary free software project". IMHE successful long term 
>> projects have diverse group of developers with diverse driving 
>> forces.
>
>+1024.
>
>Kernel development was once led entirely by volunteers and is now 
>largely accomplished by employees of large corporates.
>
>What did never change throughout 15 years of successful kernel 
>development is that developers come from a variety of industries, 
>bringing wildly different ideas while trying to reach the most 
>disparate objectives. No single entity controls Linux development 
>exclusively, making it the de-facto industry standard for almost any 
>new device being engineered.
>
>Before, the idea of a single kernel which could run on thousands of 
>architectures ranging from tiny access points to supercomputers was 
>simply unthinkable.
>
>Sugar needs to do the same: diversify its contributors by engaging 
>volunteers, commercial entities, governments, non-profits, academic 
>institutions... and of course deployments.
>
>Giving up centralized control is key to success in distributed 
>development.

I wholeheartedly agree with all of above.

My concern was one of transparency.  Noone else has a concern about that 
apparently, which is (hopefully) comforting...


   - Jonas

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