Thursday, January 13, 2005

Why Open Source Developers are such a Privileged Group?   Mike Keith rightly points out in his latest blog Open source injustice - a new gripe that open Source Developers (even they are making money out of the software) get many privileges those are denied to developers from Software Companies. In many technology conferences or journals, their papers on products are gladly accepted whereas product specific papers from Software vendors are rejected outright. Even sometimes they are denied to provide examples how it is implemented in a specific product. I have had such experience myself about a year back when one of the technology magazines had objections when I put some of our vendor specific deployment descriptors as an example whereas they had several papers from professional open source developers on their technologies in the same issue. In my opinion “Product is a product” whether it is developed by developers employed by a software vendor or a professional open source group. I do not deny that most of the open source developers smart but I do not understand "Why the professional open source developers are such a privileged group?" 3:44:40 PM    comment []

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