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____/ Attila on Monday 03 August 2009 18:52 : \____
> Hadron wrote:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> An Explanation of the Economic of Open Source
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | When I was in University, not long after discovering a thing called
>>> | "Linux" and all the wonderful free software that came with it, I fell
>>> | in love with Open Source. The ethics of openness and meritocracy really
>>> | appealed to me. It just seemed to me to be the "right" way of doing
>>> | things.
>>> |
>>> | However it was a source of some good humoured tension between myself
>>> | and my colleagues, circa Red Hat 6.0. Reaction against the idea of open
>>> | source basically ranged from "anything given away for free can't be any
>>> | good", to "very idealistic but it has no future since there is no way
>>> | to make a living off of 'free'".
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
http://climbing-the-hill.blogspot.com/2009/08/explanation-of-economic-of-open-source.html
>>
>> Who paid for his University course?
> Isn't it obvious? He paid for it from his savings obtained through using
> free open source software; that and a council grant and a part-time job,
> silly. ;)
> Attila
I've worked since I was 13 or so.
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