Comments on: Open Source – way beyond software http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/2008/03/floss1.html Welcome to the Nebula Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:52:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Louie Bergsagel http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/2008/03/floss1.html/comment-page-1#comment-425 Louie Bergsagel Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:38:33 +0000 http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog/tech/2008/03/floss1.html#comment-425 Python is free, but it is supported as if it were a charity. I don't know how that model is implemented, but it seems to be successful. Having just finished a Python class, I think PICK is very Python-like (or vice-versa), and think an OO version of PICK/U2 could be THE universal language, but I don't know if even a company like InterSystems can spawn that much interest unless the software is open source. Maybe OSS needs a model like "buy it or develop for it". You could get credits by helping develop, debug, document, or manage. Or you could just buy the software. http://python.about.com/b/2006/11/11/python-is-free-who-pays-to-support-it.htm Python is free, but it is supported as if it were a charity. I don’t know how that model is implemented, but it seems to be successful.
Having just finished a Python class, I think PICK is very Python-like (or vice-versa), and think an OO version of PICK/U2 could be THE universal language, but I don’t know if even a company like InterSystems can spawn that much interest unless the software is open source.

Maybe OSS needs a model like “buy it or develop for it”. You could get credits by helping develop, debug, document, or manage. Or you could just buy the software.

http://python.about.com/b/2006/11/11/python-is-free-who-pays-to-support-it.htm

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