Talk about commercializing open source software

[Igor Portugal]

I am doing a talk about commercializing open source software on Tuesday

Come along, if you are interested
http://www.nzsa.org.nz/networkingdinner.php

Cheers,
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Igor Portugal
CEO, Vadacom Limited
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[Jaco]

I'd *LOVE* to come, Igor, but unfortunately I've just returned from
KiwiCon & need to attend to family-matters before committing to any more
activities in the next few weeks.
Please let me know if you plan on having another such event (or simply
want to chat over a coffee/beer)

- Jaco

Post by Igor Portugal
I am doing a talk about commercializing open source software on Tuesday
Come along, if you are interested
http://www.nzsa.org.nz/networkingdinner.php
Cheers,

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[Peter Harrison]

Igor gave a good overview of Vadacom and how he has used open source
as a basis for a new and exciting business.

However, many companies do exactly the same thing without really
talking about the open source under the covers. It could be makers of
home routers, expensive integration engines, firewall services, email
spam protection. There may be a combination of open source and closed,
but ultimately they are all (mostly) contributing to the projects they
use.

I'd *LOVE* to come, Igor, but unfortunately I've just returned from KiwiCon
& need to attend to family-matters before committing to any more activities
in the next few weeks.
Please let me know if you plan on having another such event (or simply want
to chat over a coffee/beer)
- Jaco

Post by Igor Portugal
I am doing a talk about commercializing open source software on Tuesday
Come along, if you are interested
http://www.nzsa.org.nz/networkingdinner.php
Cheers,

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[Paul Campbell]

Post by Peter Harrison
However, many companies do exactly the same thing without really
talking about the open source under the covers. It could be makers of
home routers, expensive integration engines, firewall services, email
spam protection. There may be a combination of open source and closed,
but ultimately they are all (mostly) contributing to the projects they
use.

Yup - every company I've worked for for the past 15 years has used open source
software and contributed their changes and bug fixes back to the various
projects we've used.

At one time a company I worked for had 2 people on staff who's primary job was
to work full time on outside projects (the linux kernel and glibc),
occasionally we'd ask them to help us with something we really needed doing
that they had an intimate knowledge of (like "how can we delete really big
files without making disk performance come to a complete stop?"- we built
settop boxes)

(then again there was that time we had certain file system developer on as a
contractor ... the less said about that the better ...)

We didn't make a big deal about using open source stuff - but we didn't hide it
either (all the copyrights were there in the UI if you looked for them and of
course the code is still on the web site as per the GPL)

The same is true at my current gig - 95% of what we ship is open source
(kernel libraries) , maybe 3% closed source drivers from our silicon vendors
and the rest we wrote ourselves - we all get to stand on the shoulders of
giants

Paul

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