The problem is that a lot of companies who get into open source, get in because they think "sweet I can get something for nothing". They don't understand community collaboration and sharing for the good of the whole. They are simply looking at "saving" the expense of building proprietary software - or so they think. So when the internal open source champion goes back and says we need to give back they are met with "We don't want to give up our innovations". Tt's really like the guy who pays a quarter to get a paper from one of those old school newspaper machines - then takes the whole stack.
Plain Greed
Posted by
John Mangino
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2007-04-19 01:52
I have run into the problem of seeing the subject of 'giving back' for the benefits reaped from Open Source openly mocked or ridiculed. You sit in a production meeting and bring it up and watch the glances and the rolled eyes. Among some people there really is an attitude of "If they're dumb enough to leave it out there I am taking it". It's ignorant and annoying.
I hesitate to jump to a stand of "Yes, monitor and regulate!". It seems to me that 9 times out of ten bringing bureaucracy and regulation to anything usually leads to inefficiency, bloat and a decline in innovation. This is the sentence where I offer a brilliant possible answer to the problem...uhhhhh yeah, problem is I'm not that smart.
I'd like to think educating people to where this comes from and the amount of time and money invested in these projects that save them so much time and money would do the trick. But apathy and greed are a powerful force.
So, I guess I just took the long way to say, "yeah, it's a problem. <shrug />"
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I hesitate to jump to a stand of "Yes, monitor and regulate!". It seems to me that 9 times out of ten bringing bureaucracy and regulation to anything usually leads to inefficiency, bloat and a decline in innovation. This is the sentence where I offer a brilliant possible answer to the problem...uhhhhh yeah, problem is I'm not that smart.
I'd like to think educating people to where this comes from and the amount of time and money invested in these projects that save them so much time and money would do the trick. But apathy and greed are a powerful force.
So, I guess I just took the long way to say, "yeah, it's a problem. <shrug />"