Re: [tlug] Re: Why Vista Sucks (was: linux: it's becoming ubiquitous)

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Edward Middleton writes:
>
>  > is trying to do something like this.  Perhaps the ultimate business 
>  > model for open source development is something more like a stock 
>  > exchange where developers can auction project/developer time.
>
> You do know about cosource.com and sourcexchange.com, right?
>   

I hadn't really looked at these before but looking at this article[1] on
sourceexchange.com I gather their model was to have contractors post
jobs and get developers to fill them.  In this situation you have one
customer and possibly millions of eager developers ;)  In the situation
we are talking about we have a small number of developers developing
something millions of customers are prepared to pay a small amount for.
I don't know what happened at sourceexchange.com before they presumably
ran out of money and couldn't renew their domain name, but, I would
imagine, at best, they had thousands of contractors offering projects at
well bellow the production cost and no interested developers.

Edward

1. http://linuxgazette.net/issue56/lamb.html