The Open Road: Is OpenLogic a Friend or Foe to Open
Source?
“OpenLogic just announced that it had a good 2007. The company
tripled its number of customers, and now counts three of the
Fortune 10 as companies, with many more in the Fortune 500. Good
for them.“What is perhaps less appealing about the company’s success is
that it may be achieving its success at the expense of the projects
that make it possible in the first place. Two of its top-five
projects (in a consolidated library of 380 total projects)–JBoss
and Hibernate–are developed by Red Hat. Yet the company crows
about the fact that vendors like Red Hat won’t get paid under its
model…”
OpenLogic: How OpenLogic Gives Back to Open Source
“In his blog, he asked some questions about OpenLogic’s
commitment to giving back to the open source community as well as
vendors. I know that our business model is different than a typical
commercial open source vendor, so it’s sometimes not as visible how
we give back to the open source community. Here are just a few of
the ways that OpenLogic supports open source:
- “We pay open source developers. Unlike a commercial open source
vendor, we don’t just hire committers on one particular open source
product. Instead we pay many open source developers across many
open source projects to resolve issues, fix bugs, contribute
fingerprints or work in other ways…”