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

[Paul DiRezze]

The following may be helpful:

http://management.itmanagersjournal.com/management/04/05/10/2052216.shtml?tid=85
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=13&ItemID=4894
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1553990,00.asp
http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT9958094250.html

 From what I can make of it, the financial trade-off starts with answering 
one question:

Is being the "best expert" for this software going to get you enough new 
work to justify the cost of development plus a fair margin?

If yes, then you're being paid to be a good citizen and do right by your 
customers (a very marketable business practice, btw) and open source 
becomes financially justifiable.  If no, then you should consider staying 
closed source, imho.

paul

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