Re: Companies Contributing to Open Source

From: Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz>
To: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andrej Ricnik-Bay <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com>, Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Companies Contributing to Open Source
Date: 2006-12-20 03:23:46
Message-ID: 4588ACC2.3070705@paradise.net.nz
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Jonah H. Harris wrote:
>
>
> As this document is supposed to be factual, I'd really like not to get
> into a war over lines-of-code development rates vs. bugs, quality (or
> lack thereof), etc. The *fact* is, some commercial software companies
> could easily churn out more, better quality code, if they chose to
> hire the right people and put enough money and thought into it.
>

Ahem - not wanting a war either, but what you have stated is not really
a fact at all - as it is full of hypothetical 'if's!

>
> The title of the document, "How Companies Can Effectively Contribute
> To Open Source Communities" doesn't seem to fit the content.
>

This makes sense - since Bruce is primarily writing about the
*Postgresql* community, maybe putting that in the title might be good!

Cheers

Mark

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