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Open source: It’s about capitalism, not freebies
I’ve been saying for years that open source is about capitalism, not communism.
I used to laugh when Microsoft ignorantly slandered open source as “anti-American” because the inverse was so clearly the case (PDF chapter from Open Sources 2.0).
Now Forbes, hardly a bastion of communist thought, is running an article that profiles several prominent open-source capitalists, [...]