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Where Are All the Open Source Billionaires?

Subject: Where Are All the Open Source Billionaires?
From: david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:57:30 -0400
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Dan Ritter wrote:
> You forgot the major exception: if you're paying people to work
> on the software that you depend on, it can still be open-source.
> 
> MySQL, Red Hat, IBM... lots of companies pay developers to work
> on specific open-source projects.

Yes, that's true.  Thanks for that correction.

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- Where Are All the Open Source Billionaires?
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