26 Jun
2008
26 Jun
'08
2:49 p.m.
Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk wrote:
[...] are there any good "why you should open source your application" references I can direct to, which focus on the reasons relevant to my points a-d above, not the long list of other reasons we might also use ourselves?
I don't have any relevant references to hand, but I'd start by looking at hardware companies who have moved to releasing their old, bad lock-down software as free software - Sun and IBM are the two who come most readily to mind.
Let us know how you get on, please.
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