Re: Companies Contributing to Open Source - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Mark Kirkwood
Subject Re: Companies Contributing to Open Source
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Msg-id 4588ACC2.3070705@paradise.net.nz
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In response to Re: Companies Contributing to Open Source  ("Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>)
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Jonah H. Harris wrote:
>
> 
> As this document is supposed to be factual, I'd really like not to get
> into a war over lines-of-code development rates vs. bugs, quality (or
> lack thereof), etc.  The *fact* is, some commercial software companies
> could easily churn out more, better quality code, if they chose to
> hire the right people and put enough money and thought into it.
> 

Ahem - not wanting a war either, but what you have stated is not really 
a fact at all - as it is full of hypothetical 'if's!

> 
> The title of the document, "How Companies Can Effectively Contribute
> To Open Source Communities" doesn't seem to fit the content. 
> 

This makes sense - since Bruce is primarily writing about the 
*Postgresql* community, maybe putting that in the title might be good!

Cheers

Mark



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