Re: [OSCOM] Raising kids

Seth Gottlieb <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.oscom
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Boris Kraft wrote:

> I know. But the question is: can one org stand for both parties - the  
> pure-play's and the "professional OS" guys? Does it want to?

I think that depends.  If the "professional OS" guys make their 
marketing message "we are open source for grown ups" and disparage 
community based projects, there will be very little common ground.  
However, if there are common benefits that both kinds of open source 
share (access to source code, collaboration between customers, rapid 
enhancement, open/standards based architectures), then it is worthwhile 
to have an organization that stands for and promotes these benefits. 

I also think that, given that the OS CMS "market" is so fragmented, it 
is good to have some kind of unifying body.  In order to deliver on this 
potential, I recommend a change in language to what was mentioned 
before: active participants are called members; organization leadership 
are called directors or something like that.

--Seth

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