[Ilugc] Employee Agreement of a FOSS company
- From: sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rahul Sundaram)
- Date: Thu Dec 4 14:00:13 2008
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Wednesday 03 Dec 2008 5:54:02 pm Rahul Sundaram wrote:
can you confirm that all code produced by Red Hat is opensourced? If so,
obviously neither the programmer or the company directly gets money out
of it.
Let's assume that is true but it still disproves the notion that pure
open source entities are not sustainable. That was shattered by Cygnus
back in 1989.
http://www.toad.com/gnu/cygnus/index.html
good read - note I am *not* indulging in Red Hat bashing which is the
favourite occupation a certain type of person. I am wondering about things
like code that is used in-house - does it get open sourced automatically - if
not, what is the implication wrt being a FOSS company?
Historically, custom infrastructure code has been considered different
from public products but if it solves one organization's problem it
probably is useful to others as well. I know atleast a few projects
that has been written in-house by the infrastructure team and then made
available as a public project.
One recent example would be
https://fedorahosted.org/genome/
The implication of being a FOSS company is that, there is a culture of
doing exactly this. The default choice would be to make everything
public. There might be a few exceptions for various reasons but nothing
that significantly changes the sustainability of a business that
operates this way.
Rahul
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