Re: [ossig] Financial Times: Why Open Source is Unsustainable

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23/10/2004 18:11 Ditesh Kumar said the following:
> paper. It compares FOSS initiatives with workers' communes and asks "But
> how do the insiders, such as Linus Torvalds, cash out of the business
> that they built?".

in this situation, there seems to be disbelief that someone would release 
code without expecting any financial gratification in return. additionally, 
a misunderstanding of the economics of open source leads to the notion that 
the only form of payment is financial.

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