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There Is No Open Source Community
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Open source is not just a community. It is business strategy |
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2006-01-13 21:08:53 |
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rancor
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Response to: Open source is not just a community. It is business strategy
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As I've mentioned in one of my other responses the FLOSS "community" is a complex, multi-headed beast. It certainly is not monolithic in any way.
In a similar vein I would say that the groups "entrepreneur" and "non-entrepreneur" are equally diverse.
It appears that you are using "entrepreneur" to be the "exploitative" group that are interested in siphoning off non-free (libre) but OSS into non-free AND non OSS products. As opposed to the "non-entrepreneur" who, I guess, doesn't do what the "entrepreneur" does and therefore doesn't, um, make money?
I think there are "entrepreneurs" that do more than lick their chops at all that good non-free OSS out there. I think that there are "entrepreneurs" that kick out OSS and even free/libre software that can make money.
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