Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Who Really Pays for Open Source Software?

An interesting article from CMSWire that talk about how software can that isn’t for sale actually make money.

"There has been significant growth in the open source software market over the last decade and as popularity continues to grow, the market doesn't appear to be slowing down any time soon. The Open Source community frequently attracts very intelligent, motivated and experienced developers driven by pride, personal curiosity and peer recognition to develop valuable solutions. No matter how much personal satisfaction developers receive from seeing the result of their efforts however, software developers still have to pay the bills and have some money left over to eat."

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