Shocker: Someone foots the bill for open source. Maybe Groovy's defunding will sway open source leeches to buy subscriptions.
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@_JamesWard @olivergierke Kind of weird and confusing that Rails doesn’t seem to have a company backing it.
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@stilkov @olivergierke I don't know much about Rails but it seems like a number of companies back it - most notably 37Signals / Basecamp.
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@_JamesWard @olivergierke Not really, e.g. you can’t buy support from them. Quite heterogeneous core team (rubyonrails.org/core/), too
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@stilkov @_JamesWard Seems to be a working model for them… /cc @glaforge @graemerocher
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@olivergierke @stilkov @_JamesWard @glaforge Regardless how you do it you need commercial products to backup the OSS. In this case Basecamp
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@graemerocher @olivergierke @stilkov @_JamesWard @glaforge Does basecamp really pay the bills for RoR? Is it that profitable?
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Replying to @ewolff
@ewolff @graemerocher @olivergierke @_jamesward @glaforge I think Basecamp neither makes money off RoR & nor provides significant funding

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Replying to @stilkov
@stilkov @ewolff @olivergierke @_JamesWard @glaforge Nonsense. Rails was originally created out of work at 37signals.
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@graemerocher @ewolff @olivergierke @_jamesward @glaforge Don’t see how that contradicts my statement.
Replying to @stilkov
@stilkov @ewolff @olivergierke @_JamesWard @glaforge Rails allowed Basecamp to be quicker to market, hence generating more profit
Replying to @stilkov
@stilkov @ewolff @olivergierke @_JamesWard @glaforge If you start thinking of making money directly off OSS then yes that will never work