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Open Source Doesn't Need Billionaires
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Andy Patrizio, over at InternetNews.com, is trotting out that tired old question once again: "where are the open source billionaires?" as if that was somehow relevant or necessary for open source to be worthwhile. Patrizio also suggests that open source is being carried by large vendors, but doesn't seem to grasp the benefits that the vendors are getting out of open source. The topic came up Monday at the CommunityOne conference, and Patrizio dutifully takes the bait with the claim that "the open source community is living off mom and dad" because vendors like Google, IBM, Sun, HP (and I might add Novell, though Patrizio leaves the second-largest recognized kernel contributor off the list...) foot the bill for much of the open source development.
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