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ZDNet: Sun’s Phipps Makes a Scarecrow Argument

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“Simon Phipps, a Sun executive, told a conference in London that
people need to stop thinking of open source as ‘free’ and start
thinking of it as ‘connected capitalism.’

“His theme was that altruism is not the motivation for open
source, greed is.

“But why can’t it be both…?”

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