On Tue, January 10, 2006 13:42, John McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 23:41 -0500, DC Parris wrote: >> Greetings! >> >> I am responding to an article that claims Microsoft invests $50b/year in >> R&D - as if the libre software community doesn't invest in R&D. I >> believe >> it does. Can the OOo team help me quantify what gets invested in R&D? >> I >> am also contacting some other major projects, but would like to get some >> input from the folks at OOo. >> >> Don > > To compare like with like, you may need to look at developer manhours > per annum generated by Microsoft compared to the open-source > community... > > John >
Here's the general gist - which I have communicated to most of the folks I've contacted: The gist of my article is that R&D for GNU/Linux and FOSS has to be considered on a different basis than Microsoft's approach. As an example, Microsoft may well spend $50 billion/year in R&D. Against the backdrop of what they distribute, it seems like they're throwing money away. After $50b, a WMF vulnerability puts 600 million users at risk. On the FOSS side of the house, no single company has a need to invest $50 billion/year because they are essentially getting free R&D, and much of that goes unaccounted for. Don -- DC Parris http://matheteuo.org/ http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/ "Hey man, whatever pickles your file!" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
