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The Way VCs Think About Open Source: Mostly Wrong (infoworld.com)

Posted by timothy on from the broad-brush-paints-both-ways dept.

An anonymous reader writes: In an epic smack-down, Simon Phipps examines a recent article by some VCs with an apparently strong track record in open source startups and finds the way they see the world makes them plain wrong about Red Hat, OSI licenses, Apache and probably everything else they talk about.

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  1. Re:Ok, what's a VC? by Jason+Levine · · Score: 4, Informative

    Venture Capitalist - aka a rich guy/company who gives money to startup companies in the hopes that said startup with strike it big and they (the Venture Capitalist) will get more money back.

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