Comment Re:Openflows makes money supporting Open Source (Score 1) 540
One thing the developer (and your comment) misses is that opensource is about community and concepts of mutual aid. As well, if we were to take this developer's tool and modify it for a client, one thing the developer would get back is bug fixes (free programming and development).
openflows has a strong and solid focus on giving back to and supporting the opensource projects and communities whos code we modify and alter to meet our client's needs.
We make money by modifying and supporting tools that are opensource. You imply that having not written most of the tools we use somehow makes us leaches. The reality of how we relate to the groups whos tools we use shows otherwise.
In fact, there are patches that might still be a part of slashcode that we contributed as a result of getting paid to modify/serve/support slashcode for a client.
Being able to provide patches and new modules/plug-ins instead of complaints about bugs is one of the ways we contribute back to the projects we use.
openflows has a strong and solid focus on giving back to and supporting the opensource projects and communities whos code we modify and alter to meet our client's needs.
We make money by modifying and supporting tools that are opensource. You imply that having not written most of the tools we use somehow makes us leaches. The reality of how we relate to the groups whos tools we use shows otherwise.
In fact, there are patches that might still be a part of slashcode that we contributed as a result of getting paid to modify/serve/support slashcode for a client.
Being able to provide patches and new modules/plug-ins instead of complaints about bugs is one of the ways we contribute back to the projects we use.
