http://stormyscorner.com/2009/02/5-types-of-company-open-source-relationships.html Mon, 21 May 2012 13:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://stormyscorner.com/2009/02/5-types-of-company-open-source-relationships.html/comment-page-1#comment-796 Johan Ekblad Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:03:12 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/2009/02/5-types-of-company-open-source-relationships.html#comment-796 There are also other business models around Open Source SW, for example: - Education around a Open Source Product - Help companies introduce Open Source SW, i.e doing "Proof of concept" or pilot studies - Beeing a "Open Source Filter" for a company helping them checking their demands when introducing new SW (so they are not going to be locked-in in the future) Regards, Johan Ekblad There are also other business models around Open Source SW, for example:
- Education around a Open Source Product
- Help companies introduce Open Source SW, i.e doing “Proof of concept” or pilot studies
- Beeing a “Open Source Filter” for a company helping them checking their demands when introducing new SW (so they are not going to be locked-in in the future)
Regards,
Johan Ekblad

]]> http://stormyscorner.com/2009/02/5-types-of-company-open-source-relationships.html/comment-page-1#comment-795 Rob Taylor Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:14:01 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/2009/02/5-types-of-company-open-source-relationships.html#comment-795 Hi Stormy, It may be interesting to note that the most community-integrated companies of the 5th type often also fall in the 4th category too, or at least have a large hand in certain projects related to their contracting area. For example with Fluendo and Collabora Multimedia it's GStreamer, Collabora has Telepathy, OpenedHand (as was) had Clutter and Codethink is working on Wizbit (<a href="http://wizbit.org)" rel="nofollow">http://wizbit.org)</a> Thanks, Rob Hi Stormy,
It may be interesting to note that the most community-integrated companies of the 5th type often also fall in the 4th category too, or at least have a large hand in certain projects related to their contracting area. For example with Fluendo and Collabora Multimedia it’s GStreamer, Collabora has Telepathy, OpenedHand (as was) had Clutter and Codethink is working on Wizbit (http://wizbit.org)
Thanks,
Rob

]]> http://stormyscorner.com/2009/02/5-types-of-company-open-source-relationships.html/comment-page-1#comment-794 Benjamin Otte Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:01:42 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/2009/02/5-types-of-company-open-source-relationships.html#comment-794 It would have been great if you had given links for each example to blogs or similar about the work with GNOME, to make it easier to follow up on this. For your first point, I immediately thought about Dave Richards' blog on PGO for example. (On the other points I didn't know a good example immediately, but then, it's your blog entry :p) It would have been great if you had given links for each example to blogs or similar about the work with GNOME, to make it easier to follow up on this.
For your first point, I immediately thought about Dave Richards’ blog on PGO for example. (On the other points I didn’t know a good example immediately, but then, it’s your blog entry :p)

]]> http://stormyscorner.com/2009/02/5-types-of-company-open-source-relationships.html/comment-page-1#comment-793 Jack Repenning Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:59:24 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/2009/02/5-types-of-company-open-source-relationships.html#comment-793 This might part of your "built on or with" group, but I think it's a new one: there are companies who see enough value in certain open-source source products, products they use, that they're willing to pay employees to contribute to the projects, even though they don't build them into anything of their own. The Apache community is particularly strong in this sort of contribution. This might part of your “built on or with” group, but I think it’s a new one: there are companies who see enough value in certain open-source source products, products they use, that they’re willing to pay employees to contribute to the projects, even though they don’t build them into anything of their own. The Apache community is particularly strong in this sort of contribution.

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