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[This is a good article for both managers and techies to read. - jjk]

The Enterprise Committer: When Your Employee Develops Open-Source Code
on the Company Payroll
By Esther Schindler
January 31, 2007

One of your best developers comes to you with a unique proposal. Instead
of writing software from scratch, or begging for the budget to purchase
an off-the-shelf solution that would need customization anyway—well,
there's an open-source application called Foobar that does nearly
everything on the wish list. The developer suggests that she could
extend Foobar's feature set, and then contribute the enhancements back
to the open-source community. This way, when the next Foobar version is
released, it won't need the custom changes made all over again. And the
only cost is her salary.

http://www.cio.com/technology/development/opensource/open_source_on_company_time.html?CID=28487
	or
http://lispurl.com/cadaddddaadddr  (for easier clickage)