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Is free the new pay? (BBC News)

BBC News talks with Red Hat's Matthew Szulik. "Mr Szulik was not at Red Hat from day one. "Red Hat used to be a magazine business when I joined," he told Peter Day on the BBC World Service's Global Business programme. The business now accounts for 80% of the open-source market, a fact that has led to some people calling it the Microsoft of the open source world." (Thanks to Neil Sheed)
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Is free the new pay? (BBC News)

Posted Aug 4, 2009 19:34 UTC (Tue) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

"for not much more than a sense of creative satisfaction" -- something
which is distressingly hard to come by in almost all jobs these days, so
its rarity alone gives it a lot value.

Is free the new pay? (BBC News)

Posted Aug 14, 2009 1:55 UTC (Fri) by woooee (guest, #54179) [Link]

The business now accounts for 80% of the open-source market, a fact that has led to some people calling it the Microsoft of the open source world."

Say what! 80 percent of which open-source market? And who calls it "the Microsoft of the open-source world", besides their own self-serving PR people?

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