Re: [Hampshire] Open source communities survival during econ…

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Author: John Cooper
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Open source communities survival during economic change
On 22/01/12 18:22, Keith Edmunds wrote:.
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>> This will make them support open source
>> code and change the culture. It will happen!
>
> I don't see that as a logical conclusion of the first two points you make.
> My belief is that most organisations will put some kind of support for
> their Open Source systems in place, usually either in-house staff or a
> support contract from a specialist company, and then move on. I don't
> think many will support Open Source in any realistic way, nor do I believe
> it will change culture (beyond "we use Windows" to "we use Linux").


The majority of code is still in house and not for sale, so most
companies are already coding or paying for bespoke code. It isn't such a
huge leap to move that to an open source project.

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