A professional peer of mine wrote the following article:
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/23417
which contains the following paragraph:
Google's hired great open source developers from projects like
Linux, Firefox, Samba and Apache.
They all still have ties back into those projects. Now these key
hires can help influence open source
development projects that happen to indirectly benefit Google. Plus,
open source developers would
love to help improve their projects and displace Microsoft. A win-win.
I'd like to ask the community what they think: Is the hiring of open
source star coders in expectation of
ancillary benefit from their influence in Open Source projects a win-win
form of "voting with your
feet" or is it an ethical conflict? I'm curious how we all see this.
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Jack J. Woehr
Director of Development
Absolute Performance, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
303-443-7000 ext. 527
