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How on earth do you make a dime out of Linux and open source

itwire.com — Software piracy is a scourge on the world of computing. Yet it's a problem the open source community doesn't have. That makes sense; it's all freely available. But this raises the question: if it's free how do the developers make any money? And how can it be any damn good?

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  • seananderson, on 01/07/2009, -0/+1Very good article explaining this very basic aspect of OSS that is so often misunderstood.

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