My fiscal responcibility to my company ver. Open Source - advice please

[Jim Rootham]

>   I have been asked to write a program which I think, when done, will
>have an honest benefit to the community. Now, I was able to write it
>because my boss paid my hourly wage to write it so the program belongs
>to the company. The question is how to release it.
>

Open source history includes both companies doing well and companies
being burned by open source releases.

How much support does it need?  If not much, you are likely to get burned.

Can it be dual licensed?  See MySQL for a successful version of this option.

Is releasing trailing versions an option?  This also plays for time.

There is no pat answer to this (unless you are RSS AFAIK).

Jim Rootham
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