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Meet the experts : at OpenLogic
May 08, 2006
Open source services firm OpenLogic has come up with an interesting new way of providing support to its customers while rewarding key open source software experts, creating a new Expert Community for development support.
As, the company explains “the OpenLogic Expert Community is a new business model that directly compensates open source developers for their time in fixing enterprise issues.
“Open source companies have typically hired open source developers as employees, but OpenLogic's innovative model enables community members to get rewarded for their support efforts without requiring them to switch jobs.
“In addition to paying members of the OpenLogic Expert Community to resolve enterprise issues, OpenLogic will also contribute money for each issue resolved to a fund that will be used to help further open source efforts.”
This sounds like a win-win situation, barring small print, and is a clever move by the company to differentiate it from the various other open source services firms. More details are available here and here where it is revealed that developers will earn points that can be exchanged for cash, products, or an open source donation. Sounds good.
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