>> [...]
>> Please, tell me what are your thoughts on this. Am I too pessimistic?
>> Are you, like me, thinking these companies as open source "scroungers"?
> I think it's more that "companies" tend to need assurances (i.e. someone
> to call and blame when [insert solution here] doesn't do something in an
> expected manner).
Yup, the Free Software world needs more companies who sell support
contracts and collaborate between them to lower their costs and
strengthen their offering (so as to be competitive with larger
corporations).
But of course, there's still the issue that "noone was fired for buying
<BIGNAMEHERE>", so any human-scale company offering support contracts
will tend to be overlooked, even if its bid is competitive.
Stefan "whose employer (Université de Montréal) spends >$10M
yearly on an Oracle support contract 🙁"
