[TriLUG] demoing F/OSS innovation(s)

[Brian Henning]

I think it may be an unfortunate assumption (for lack of a better word) to
automatically assign the usefulness and/or economic benefits of F/OSS
software to "mom & pop" organizations.  If some large-ish corporation(s)
were to publicly jump on using F/OSS software for their operations, it could
be the sort of publicity needed to give a big boost to real "end-user" F/OSS
software development.
Of course, the problem likely will boil down to greed..  A) are the big
software conglomerates going to sit by while F/OSS takes chunks out of their
market share?  B) are more community F/OSS developers going to suddenly
realize that they could be / should be / deserve to be / want to be paid for
their development efforts?  C (a corollary to B))  Will the service contract
industry sufficiently finance corporate F/OSS development in the long-run?
Perhaps I'm overly cynical..  Just my few cents.

~B