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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Open-Source Whatever

Tim Bray: “Open Source Software is its own reward; that, and hanging out with people who share our passions. We don’ need no steenkin’ economics. Or ideologies either.”

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Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Free R & D?

Simon Phipps: “So, if you’re discussing the economics of open source, please don’t say we’re here providing ‘free R&D’. The actual investment is huge, I would guess of the order of trillions of dollars for the aggregate F/OSS communities globally measured in US salaries. But no-one ever sees that cost because the F/OSS community is […]

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Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

OpenSource != amateurs

Gianugo Rabellino: “If I really need to draw a line, that would be around the diversity concept: as long as a project is able to catalyze different interest and build communities that foster communication, the Open Source concept is alive and kicking, and it really doesn’t matter much if a project community is focused on […]

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