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Evolution of a 100% Free Software-Based Publisher
NewsForge (also owned by VA) has a quick and interesting look at the evolution of a 100% free software-based Italian publisher. From the article: "Today, Sovilla acknowledges that choosing a 100% free software workflow complicated his working life. He also notes, however, that a great part of his troubles came from an early start, at a time when programs such as Scribus weren't mature enough yet. Today, he says, the situation has improved considerably, and publishers who are willing to experiment with an alternative software platform can, and should, try it without fear."
Hate to break it to you, but 99.9 percent of the software development world doesn't give a damn about the various kooky open source ideologies out there. There is no trend towards these ideologies in the software development world.
It is like the kid who has a swimming pool and everyone in the neighborhood is over at their house being nice to them everyday during summer and the kid starts to think they are everyone's best friend and wants everyone to start getting 'friends for life' tattoos.
Sorry kid, but we don't really like you, we just wanted to use your pool...