talk.bmc.com — Opensville is an analogy -- The perfect Utopia where everyone wants to shop and play -- but where no one actually wants to live. Join, whurley - Chief Architect of Open Source Systems Management at BMC as he explain why.
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cenobiteApr 19, 2007
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gmorganApr 19, 2007
Fact is if one in a thousand contribute back we will be in rude health. We don't need everyone to contribute though it would be nice. What we need is a large enough base that we get lots of contributors just through scale. Fact is as we get more leachers we get more producers. This isn't a danger at all. It doesn't cost us anything as such for them to use the code base without contributing but for each person who picks up a copy there is a chance we will get a new developer as a result.
gmorganApr 19, 2007
Best thing to do is write bug reports. Documentation and artwork is also nice.
davidroolsApr 19, 2007
I feel ya. I've been looking for Ubuntu's donation section because I've downloaded several gigs worth of apps and updates from their servers over the past year.
miyamotofreakApr 19, 2007
To be honest the ideal solution would be a total open-source world where everyone was using it to the point where the government funded open source.
whurleyApr 20, 2007
While Ubuntu doesn't have a donate here paypal button, they do list several ways in which you can help support the project here: <a class="user" href="http://www.ubuntu.com/support">http://www.ubuntu.com/support</a>
whurleyApr 20, 2007
Hmm, not sure what this means but thanks...I guess ;)
whurleyApr 20, 2007
Wash that hand...often!
whurleyApr 23, 2007
I'll suggest that we move this discussion and new comments over to Steve Carl's response to "Welcome to Opensville; Population Zero" - <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/tech_news/Being_a_resident_of_opensville">http://digg.com/tech_news/Being_a_resident_of_opensville</a>