[Noisebridge-discuss] City of Berkeley explanation of why not using open source.. Open Source vs. "proprietary" software

[Brian Morris]

Oracle has a good presence in SF, and having integrated both with Red Hat
and Sun (w/ Java) that's where I might look. Or maybe an independent
all-around consultant.


On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Wladyslaw Zbikowski <
embeddedlinuxguy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:18 AM,
> <travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org> wrote:
> > I think he's saying:
> >
> > Code forks
> > We depend on the fork
> > fork goes commercial
> > now we're stuck
>
> Hint: the right to fork is recursive. So if Company N goes proprietary
> (or belly-up), the code can always be picked up by Company N+1.
>
> Open question: I have a small (5-100 person) business and cannot
> afford a fulltime Linux support staff for IT, employee training, and
> software customization. Is there a firm I can outsource this to which
> will charge me per employee per year? Canonical?
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