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Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

Posted May 18, 2011 8:11 UTC (Wed) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)
In reply to: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software by ingwa
Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

> But you need to involve other skills than just software development, and that's also not something that many free software projects do.

Perhaps a strong focus on making it easy for others to contribute would help too. But that is also boring once your software does what you want it to.

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