SourceXchange worked as a broker, bringing interested parties
together. Money passed thru them rather than going directly from
corporation to programmer(s). Both the corporation and the
programmer(s) had contracts with SourceXchange. I felt it was
reasonable arrangement. I hate marketing and selling and so do it
very badly. I didn't get rich doing it, but I didn't expect to. I am
sorry to see them fold. Of the three open source sites I know of
(CoSource and FSF are the other two), they were the only one that had
more than beer money.
Just my 0.02 USD,
Jeffrey
Quoting Jerry Kreps
mmm... I'm not so sure it's all that bad... Having run my own independent computer consulting business for fifteen years I saw lots of 'head hunters' exploit, or try to, programmers.
As a professional programmer I don't believe that I would "collaborate" with corporations even on open source, if collaboration meant doing it for free. If collabortion wasn't free then the relationship is one where CollabNet plays the role of the head hunter. That's a different proposition. JLK
On Wednesday 11 April 2001 12:01, Fred A. Miller wrote:
"After spending 20 months trying to use the Internet to bring together corporate IT workers and open-source software developers to collaborate on technology projects, CollabNet Inc. has shut down its SourceXchange online marketplace due to a lack of adequate revenue."
http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO59419,00.htm l
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