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financial gain should be pretty easy to demonstrate, regardless

financial gain should be pretty easy to demonstrate, regardless

Posted Aug 15, 2008 17:42 UTC (Fri) by stevenj (guest, #421)
In reply to: For GPL it's ever easier by khim
Parent article: Why the JMRI decision matters

Even without that, it should be pretty easy to demonstrate financial benefits to authors of free software. For example, I personally have received job offers, consulting contracts, speaking invitations (which in turn improve my professional prospects), etc. as a direct result of free software that I've written. I suspect that authors of any widely used free software have similar experiences.


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