Can Open Source and Capitalism Co-Exist?

"For some reason, people still can't seem to get their heads around the idea that you can make money, big money, from FOSS (Free Software/Open Source). It's a pity that more of them couldn't have been in New York City this week for the O'Reilly Money:Tech conference.

"While I wasn't there, eWEEK's Peter Galli was, and he caught a fascinating panel discussion on the question: 'Are Open Source and Capitalism Worlds Apart?' What I found especially interesting was that the people on this panel were not from Red Hat, MySQL or Trolltech..."

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