Re: EDB taking over?

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Simon Riggs wrote:

> We should either
> i) remove it
> ii) auction/openly charge for the advertising space
> iii) have a credits or sponsors list

First, I agree with many points of this thread, but I do want to point out
that like *alot* of companies out there (CMD, EnterpriseDB, Redhat), they
have already sunk a huge amount of money into personnel that are working
directly on the code ...

The OneClick Installer is one of EDB's most *visible* contribution ...
there is nothing stopping someone else with duplicating that effort, but I
doubt that will happen ...

As Dave mentions, EDB employs *several* ppl that work on that installer,
which is not small contribution in terms of both man hours *and* monetary
value ...

We have several places on the web site were we acknowledge other
contributions ... if anything is missing from the installer (and I don't
know that it is), it would be some sort of link *to* the list of Project
Contributors in a prominent way .. but as the installer itself is their
contribution, "charging for advertising space" on it doesn't quite seem
reasonable, unless, of course, EDB wanted to charge for the advertising
space to offset the budget they put into developing and maintaining it?



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