Satire: Engineering, Sales, and Open Source

"A man has been in the dessert for a week without water and comes across three different groups of people who have water to spare. Will he be able to quench his thirst...?

"A group of open source zealots:

"Hey, here's some free water to quench that thirst of yours. This water is really good, as good as that commercial spring water, maybe better. The nifty thing about this water is that no one can claim its theirs..."

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