The economic downturn certainly won't kill open source. Like everyone else here has said, some people just don't do it for the money. If anything, I could see an economic downturn to boost open source. Supposedly more businesses are being turned on to the idea of open source, which is going to increase IT professionals' interest in it. In addition, we may see an increase in donations from businesses into open source projects. Aside from all that, the article cites unemployment as a reason for the downturn. I could see these unemployed people spending more time on open source projects. Plus layoffs = unemployment = gov't paycheck.
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"It seems like a straghtforward process since the number of primes is essentially fixed." Only in the sense that infinity is a fixed number.
The economic downturn certainly won't kill open source. Like everyone else here has said, some people just don't do it for the money. If anything, I could see an economic downturn to boost open source. Supposedly more businesses are being turned on to the idea of open source, which is going to increase IT professionals' interest in it. In addition, we may see an increase in donations from businesses into open source projects.
Aside from all that, the article cites unemployment as a reason for the downturn. I could see these unemployed people spending more time on open source projects. Plus layoffs = unemployment = gov't paycheck.