Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:23:39AM -0700, Ted Gould wrote:
Oh Bryce, you're being so polite :) Seriously though, they need to figure out how they want to deal with the community. Until they define
This seems very simple to us, but I've had first hand experience at OSDL with the myriad of ways that companies run into trouble figuring out how to deal with the community. I think we all know how different open
I think Ted is right. As a graphics software only company they are directly in competition with Inkscape - thus, all this code merging talk sounds strange (I don't see Trolltech trying to merge their code with Gtk or vice-versa - interops yes, merging no). Most successful commercial companies in the open source community have made it thru services: part add-ons, part support, part operations, part packaging, part data warehousing, etc - I think to be viewed as an open source friendly company Xara needs to operate in terms of being a graphic design services company utilizing community software as a base - but they haven't exactly said what they are thinking along these lines and if they honestly don't know well maybe they should be flying us in for some strategic consulting!