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Are Vendors Vital to Open Source?

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“All of which leads to a profound and interesting question,
namely are vendors vital to open source?

“I know they believe they are. Folks like Matt Asay and Dave
Rosenberg probably can’t conceive of a vital open source movement
absent its vendors. Yet the most vital open source projects are run
by non-profits Linux, Firefox, Eclipse.”

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