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Re: Itching and scratching (Re: source mgt. requirements solicitation)
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: lord at emf dot net, shebs at apple dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:39:12 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Itching and scratching (Re: source mgt. requirements solicitation)
> Speaking more generally, the folks that get paid to do free software
> are the ones who are solving the problems of people with the money.
> It's up to us to be clever enough to figure out to solve the specific
> problems in a way that improves architecture and infrastructure.
> That was a key but underappreciated aspect of Cygnus' development
> contracts; we would always try to go after projects that included
> infrastructure improvement, but if necessary we would do something
> that was random but lucrative and use the profits to pay for
> generic work.
For the record, this is very similar to ACT's approach to development
contracts.