Attracting commerce-minded devs to an open source business
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| The company has worked with some of New Zealand's most reputable
| organizations, including NZ Post, Telecom NZ, TAB, and the
| Electoral Enrolment Centre. Turnover is good, and the company
| has zero debt, Christie said.
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| "If anyone says that you can't make money doing open-source
| type work, they're just wrong," he said.
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| The work environment in an open source company should also reflect its
| ideology, Christie said, starting from the tools that developers use
| in-house.
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| "Nothing tells a developer more than they are working in an open source
| company than pointing them to a Debian repository and telling them to set
| up their own desktop," he said.
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