Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 26, 2007 04:34 PM
He's still operating on some false premises. One of which is the incorrect assertion that the majority of open source developers are hobbyists. True that hobbyists make a contribution that cannot be ignored. However, it appears that a larger portion come directly from the corporate sector.
Look at all the contributors to Apache, MySQL, Qt, the Linux kernel, and so on.
False premise
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 26, 2007 04:34 PMHe's still operating on some false premises. One of which is the incorrect assertion that the majority of open source developers are hobbyists. True that hobbyists make a contribution that cannot be ignored. However, it appears that a larger portion come directly from the corporate sector.
Look at all the contributors to Apache, MySQL, Qt, the Linux kernel, and so on.
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