Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 25, 2003 07:10 PM
>why spend to inovate when you can just wait and >take what someone else does when they are forced to > open there source
Time to market.
I have seen it happen in my company: we used GPL stuff, which we modified. We knew other companies were working on that as well, but we needed it done now, to win over deals. Once the deals are won, the competitors can have the enhencements, who cares.
If your company spends its time waiting for others to do stuff, it's not going to go anywhere...
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Re:what a ridiculous story
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 25, 2003 07:10 PM>take what someone else does when they are forced to
> open there source
Time to market.
I have seen it happen in my company: we used GPL stuff, which we modified. We knew other companies were working on that as well, but we needed it done now, to win over deals. Once the deals are won, the competitors can have the enhencements, who cares.
If your company spends its time waiting for others to do stuff, it's not going to go anywhere...
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