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LinuxDevices: Open Source for Capitalists

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Matt Asay
Mar 12, 2004

“Open source, though growing fast, has not yet ‘won.’ We stand
at a pivotal moment. Open source developers have done their job.
They write great software. They have developed an infrastructure
upon which companies and individuals can build, without fear of
having the platform used against them.

“Yet despite all the attention paid to open source; all the
momentum behind it; and all the progress it has made, the open
source community has overlooked one critical ingredient to its
ultimate, overwhelming success:

Money…”

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Matt Asay

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