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Product carriers¶
This document describes the responsibilities of a product carrier.
- product carrier¶
The legal or natural person who carries or governs the usage of a software product.
A product carrier invests into development, maintenance and marketing of a given software product.
Decides about the product’s lifetime, usage conditions, functionalities and priorities of development.
Represents the community of its users.
Plans the software product and decides about its destiny.
Decides which features to add or to remove.
Does strategic decisions.
Provides a product manager and a development provider.
May provide expert support service to site operators.
When a given Lino application is being used on only one site, the operator of that site is de facto also the application developer. Otherwise the application developer is a separate legal person by which several site operators collaborate and maintain the application as their shared project.