Hi, Just a quick question. Had a conversation with a person who works for a non-profit, and she was describing some of her dealings with obtaining grants for the development of 'open source' apps.Got me to thinking. If a company sponsored the initial development of an 'open source' kind of app (the exact licensing would need to be fleshed out) what do yout think would be the response of people to work on the apps.. I started to wnoder if there would be a pool of talented people who would be interested in working on projects that are initially funded. The funding would go to pay the resources, set up the project, do initial grass roots marketing, etc... The idea would be to focus in on the projects/technologies/apps that a given business would agree to initially support/fund. Thoughts/comments/etc... -bruce bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ps. I'm not talking about a freshmeat.net/sourceforge kind of environment. The obvious goal of this kind of process would be to turn small applications/projects into profitable applications. My curiousity is whether you could then create applications/services that could be built along the same model as nagios/mysql/etc.. where you have a free/open version, as well as a fee based application/service. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
