7 Person Year Application Rewritten in 2 Person Months

Re:7 Person Year Application Rewritten in 2 Person Months by andreyf on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @11:56AM (#62065)

Sounds like a prisoner's dilemma kind of problem... individual firms won't benefit from open sourcing unless everyone open sources.

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Re:7 Person Year Application Rewritten in 2 Person Months by brlewis on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @12:05PM (#62066)

Not at all. Open sourcing your software not only means you share the benefits, but also the costs:

http://web.mit.edu/wwwdev/cgiemail/buybuild.html

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Re:7 Person Year Application Rewritten in 2 Person Months by startupcrazy on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @05:16PM (#62277)

Indeed. All of the Detroit automobile companies are now off shoring to India and China to try to reduce costs. Open sourcing factor floor control and monitoring systems is simply another way to achieve the same results.

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