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Free Can Mean Big Money - The Open Source Economy

Gentu writes "People are always accusing Open Source proponents of being communists, but an editorial by the OSNews publisher, ex-Red Hat employee David Adams, takes a critical look at whether Free and Open Source Software is really anti-capitalistic or is, in fact, only a product of the free market at work. Does wide availability of high quality, low cost software harm or help the world's economy?"

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  1. Re:And this is bad why...? by The+Mgt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've always taken being called a commie as a compliment.