On 02/19/2013 12:10 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Fact #1 - The OI Community seems to be filled with a whole lot more people
> asking for features than there are developers to implement them. Some of
> these are reasonable requests, too, but there just simply aren't that many
> people actually working on OI to make them all possible even if the
> developers wanted to.
>
> Fact #2 - OI doesn't have any real organizational structure, nor do the OI
> developers seem to want any. You can't charge anyone a dime for anything
> without an organizational structure in place -- and you can't force an
> organizational structure down the OI developers' throats, or they'll simply
> leave, and OI will die.
>
> Friendly suggestion:
>
> If you want security updates, there's no reason why some of you can't get
> together and start your own business offering these updates for a fee. OI is
> open source. You wouldn't necessarily have to start your own distribution,
> although you could do that, too. But the code base is out there. You can
> charge a fee for these services. And if you want to be real nice, contribute
> the security fixes back to OI for inclusion in later releases.
>
> That'd be do-able, and probably the closest to a win-win situation that
> you're likely to find.
>
> I, personally, doubt if you could make enough money on it to make it worth
> your while; but perhaps you could.
>
> It's called, entrepreneurialism.
[raises hand]
I'd pay for it. Much less for x86 than for SPARC, but I'd definitely
pay for it for SPARC.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
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