Economic Slump hits Open Source

Posted by michael on Tuesday November 20, 2001 @03:44AM from the deer-in-the-headlights dept.

adamjone writes: "C|NET and Yahoo! are running a story about the hit that open source software is taking during this economic slump. Open source development is a hobby for me, not my full-time job. I find that I have more time to work on my project during times when my full-time job is slow, or we don't have enough work. Is open source truly being driven by those who make it their full-time occupation? If so, is there a happy medium for keeping bread on the table and still working within the open source community?" At least Microsoft is doing well.

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Um, no. by NineNine · 2001-11-20 04:11 · Score: 2, Funny

Convenient that you link shows just the past two years. This is what shareholders REALLY think of Microsoft. Notice that even in this recession, you'd be up over 600% just in the last 5 years. You'd be up several thousand percent if you stretched it back further than that chart shows.