Re: OSS and getting money for it (was: [tlug] Re: Why Vista Sucks)

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Edward Middleton writes:
>  > I guess the problem is that for most companies worth investing in
>  > IP (as in the source code) isn't the big asset, its the people
>  > running the company.
>
> By "people running the company" do you mean MBA-toting venture
> capitalists, or developer-owners such as Eric Allman or Keith Bostic,
> or robber barons like Gates and Ballmer?  In cases 1 and 3 pretty
> clearly the managers are talented at managing and at playing market
> hardball, but if you subtract the IP they have very little to work
> with.
>   

I am referring to everyone who makes the company successful.  Great IP 
and business plans are nothing without the right people to make them happen.

Edward