[Info-vax] OT: The New Face of HP

[Arne Vajhøj]

JF Mezei wrote:
> ChrisQ wrote:
>> Agreed up to a point, but the open source movement is not about side 
>> shuffling volunteer maintenance to your employer (third party) as paid 
>> work. 
> 
> Unless the employer, be it HP, IBM or other, publically brags about
> providing support for the open sourced community, in which case, you
> should expect that when an employee is listed as maintainer for a piece
> of open source software, that he does this as part of the open source
> community with support from his employer.

Those companies are not philanthropic.

They provide that support to make money.

Arne