[#MXE-681707]: Shibboleth consulting services

[Paul B. Henson]

> From: Nate Klingenstein
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 5:50 PM
>
> Lurking and spamming participants on an open source mailing list is, in my
> opinion, both good business and really bad karma.  I like to think karma wins
> sometimes.

Definitely bad karma, although I wouldn't necessarily agree always good business. I know I for one would be less inclined to work with or trust a business which had a reputation akin to an ambulance chaser :).

Some people lack the technical resources for a fully in-house implementation, or have insufficient time, so I think there's definitely a role for consulting companies in the open source biosphere, but if I wanted to avail of such, I'd be more likely to go with a company like Unicon whose representatives participate as helpful members of the community and push all of their work back upstream, gathering good karma along the way ;).