Re: Git User's Survey 2007 partial summary

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 27, 2007, 23:48 UTC
Message-ID: <200708280148.29702.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <61e816970708262024m1cbbfd4dxfeb10b56397670b8@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007, Dan Chokola wrote:

> On 8/26/07, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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>> 55. Would commerical (paid) support from a support vendor be of interest
>> to you/your organization?
>>
>> Only 44 answers yes, 217 no, 126 not applicable (which was menat to
>> encompass people who do not use git for work).
> 
> Are questions like this at all indicative of where Git is looking
> towards going?

This question was actually requested on git mailing list to be in the survey...

This question is to get to know if there is sufficient demand for commercial git support for it to be viable. There are two possible outcomes:

If there is enough demand, then company selling git support can make a living. Company selling support for git means more git user's (because some corp needs to have commercial/external support to be present) and possibly more developers. It is possible that some revenue falls to main git developers, be it by paying somebody to hack on git, or paying for some feature or for fixing a bug fast.

If there is not enough demand, better to know it from onset that to have company which tries to provide git support bancrupt. No failed support company means no bad publicity on git; it _might_ mean that community support is enogh for git...

Note that commercial (paid) support does not clash with GPL. One does not need change in license to have commercial git support. GPL allows paid support.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland