What's In It for Me? Benefits from Open Sourcing Code

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Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series: Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick
What's In It for Me? How Your Company Can Benefit from Open Sourcing Code As the open source community continues to clamor for more companies to open source their code, more and more executives are asking themselves just what open source can do for their company. There are a number of ways for a
company to open source an internal project: from tossing code over the wall on the one hand to running a fully open development project on the other to any combination of the two. This talk will discuss the costs and benefits associated with each method as well as how to successfully launch your ne
w open source project.

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An excellent video ... ( 9 months ago by mcoley91)

An excellent video and very interesting.

More people should ... ( 9 months ago by mamdk)

More people should watch this video especially Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh developers! Since most of the viewers of this video are probably already convinced that open source is great.

heh, just keep in ... ( 9 months ago by dsjfh09kjmsd3kjh)

heh, just keep in mind that when they are saying "typically ...", they are referring to their own experience. both guys come from SVN project, which is very heavily developer-oriented. so their userbase is quite unique and UNtypical. as a result, their presentation is based on one rather big assumption. that there's a pool of high-quality developers just sitting and waiting to jump in and start enhancing whatever is getting open-sourced. this is hardly a reality.

Microsoft bases ... ( 3 months ago by dubonbacon)

Microsoft bases their whole business on secrets such as the Win32 API and closed file formats. The company will die before opening the code. Linux is an example of software which "distrupts" a market, like they say in the beginning of the talk. Opening the code is for companies which are not in the business of selling their software. For example, IBM wants to sell servers and offer consulting, so they want the software to become a commodity. They like Linux for that reason.

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