Should employers subsidize open source development?

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Fri, 08/29/2008 - 14:26

We'll probably never see companies everywhere subsidizing employee development of open source tools, many tech and non-tech companies alike could benefit from subsidizing open source development from employees with talent.

If more companies woke up to this idea, we'd see more purpose-driven, mission-critical open source software


 

Related items

What impact does money have on Open Source development?
There is a major component of open source software development that is a labor of love, and many don't associate that with monetary compensation --...

Fosdem A Festival of Free
The Free and Open Source Software Developers European Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, attracts about 3,000 people every year, and last month marked its...

Fosdem A Festival of Free
The Free and Open Source Software Developers European Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, attracts about 3,000 people every year, and last month marked its...

Fosdem A Festival of Free
The Free and Open Source Software Developers European Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, attracts about 3,000 people every year, and last month marked its...

iPhone: The Missing Manual: Covers the iPhone 3G (Missing...
The new iPhone 3G is here, and New York Times tech columnist David Pogue is on top of it with a thoroughly updated edition of iPhone: The Missing...

Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition)
The best-selling introduction to Cocoa, once again updated to cover the latest Mac programming technologies, and still enthusiastically recommended...

Logitech V470 Bluetooth Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks -...
Logitech V470 Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks with Bluetooth Technology allows people to connect directly to Bluetooth-enabled MacBook computers...


 

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
motd.ambians.com