Open-Source Firms Reward Developers with Xboxes
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| While Peters believes that almost all open-source
| developers are still motivated to work on those
| projects that they believe in and are useful to
| them, many are also being hired full-time by
| companies such as IBM and HP, which have an
| interest in those projects, she told eWEEK.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20061024/tc_zd/192112
Reminds me of an old rant of mine (directed at Novell) when the SLED
raffle has an iPod minis (proprietary and DRM) among the prizes... I
guess both the iPod mini and the XBox 360 can be converted to Linux
(albeit the latter is work in progress)... But it's possible to make a
living by writing GPL-licensed code with minimal supervision and a lot
of freedom.
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