Corporate funding for free software (listen carefully)
The other day I heard someone make these two arguments, one after the other:
1. Red Hat is just mooching off the community's work.
2. Red Hat is wasting their money by giving work away to the community.
(OK, they are not *quite* contradictory, if you assume it is different communities that are respectively contributing and benefiting. But it's awfully close, and this person at least didn't notice it.)
posted Fri 25 Jun 2004 in /software/opensource | link
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