Re: [ossig] FOSSCON 2005

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26/01/2005 11:23 Ditesh said the following:
> projects, but it can encourage existing developers to use foss dev 
> tools. For example, using PHP + WACT or Zope instead of .NET, using 
> SWT+Eclipse for Java development instead of any of the existing 

i think this is unlikely, unless there's also some economic impetus to make 
that switch. one way is to hire a .NET developer and /force/ him to pick up 
PHP/python/perl.

in the goal to create more developers, the thrust, imho, should be centred 
on the bosses on why an open source dev model should be employed, as per 
your assertion below:

>  the
> decision to foss in house code has seen significant returns. Our code 
> now works correctly on a larger number of platforms  and environments 
> than it did before, which increases the value of the code and our 
> ability to sell it to prospective clients.

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