publicOSS

The phrase goes like “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime”. It is not clear who said that, but most of the places with the quote add at the end “Chinese Proverb”. Anyway, the idea of helping someone giving the “hows to” instead a final product is a good one. Grouchnikov Kirill even said in his blog that keeping the ownership of the tool is a good form of business. That will be something like teaching how to fish, but keeping in secret how to make fishing nets. It is clear that if you adopt OSS in an office, not everybody is going to mess with the code. However the option of changing the code is there, and having options is a good thing (you can ask evolutionists).