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		<title>By: Dave Neary: Estimating merge costs &#124; Full-Linux.com</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dave Neary: Estimating merge costs &#124; Full-Linux.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] commenting on Mal Minhasâ€™s â€œcost of non-participationâ€ paper (PDF), Iâ€™ve been thinking about the cost [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Safe as Milk &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Estimating merge costs</title>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2009/09/17/the-value-of-engagement/#comment-59</link>
		<dc:creator>Safe as Milk &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Estimating merge costs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] commenting on Mal Minhas&#8217;s &#8220;cost of non-participation&#8221; paper (PDF), I&#8217;ve been thinking [...]</description>
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		<title>By: LiMo white paper: Mobile open source economic analysis &#124; Full-Linux.com</title>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2009/09/17/the-value-of-engagement/#comment-58</link>
		<dc:creator>LiMo white paper: Mobile open source economic analysis &#124; Full-Linux.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] The LiMo Foundation has published an interesting white paper [PDF] on the economic value of working with the development community. &#8220;The cost of forking and losing connection with upstream development is twofold: i) the corresponding cost of presumed beneficial unleveraged potential, ii) the further cost of having to re-engineer modified forked code in the future to accommodate the inevitable eventual re-sync with upstream. We quantified the former to show that the figures run into $millions for important components such as GTK, WebKit, GStreamer and BlueZ.&#8221; (By way of Dave Neary). [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] The LiMo Foundation has published an interesting white paper [PDF] on the economic value of working with the development community. &#8220;The cost of forking and losing connection with upstream development is twofold: i) the corresponding cost of presumed beneficial unleveraged potential, ii) the further cost of having to re-engineer modified forked code in the future to accommodate the inevitable eventual re-sync with upstream. We quantified the former to show that the figures run into $millions for important components such as GTK, WebKit, GStreamer and BlueZ.&#8221; (By way of Dave Neary). [...]</p>
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		<title>By: LiMo white paper: Mobile open source economic analysis &#124; Open Source Pixels</title>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2009/09/17/the-value-of-engagement/#comment-57</link>
		<dc:creator>LiMo white paper: Mobile open source economic analysis &#124; Open Source Pixels</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] The LiMo Foundation has published an interesting white paper [PDF] on the economic value of working with the development community. &#8220;The cost of forking and losing connection with upstream development is twofold: i) the corresponding cost of presumed beneficial unleveraged potential, ii) the further cost of having to re-engineer modified forked code in the future to accommodate the inevitable eventual re-sync with upstream. We quantified the former to show that the figures run into $millions for important components such as GTK, WebKit, GStreamer and BlueZ.&#8221; (By way of Dave Neary). [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] The LiMo Foundation has published an interesting white paper [PDF] on the economic value of working with the development community. &#8220;The cost of forking and losing connection with upstream development is twofold: i) the corresponding cost of presumed beneficial unleveraged potential, ii) the further cost of having to re-engineer modified forked code in the future to accommodate the inevitable eventual re-sync with upstream. We quantified the former to show that the figures run into $millions for important components such as GTK, WebKit, GStreamer and BlueZ.&#8221; (By way of Dave Neary). [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Dave Neary: The value of engagement &#124; Full-Linux.com</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dave Neary: The value of engagement &#124; Full-Linux.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Safe as Milk &#187; Blog Archive &#187; The value of engagement</title>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2009/09/17/the-value-of-engagement/#comment-52</link>
		<dc:creator>Safe as Milk &#187; Blog Archive &#187; The value of engagement</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
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