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Old 03-01-2007, 12:25 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Free speech, not free beer.

I'm a software developer myself, and create both open source and proprietary. You can't say that everything should be OS. A lot of OS projects don't have support or much funding.

They each have their place. People need to make money somehow, and if they have a valuable peice of software that they spend their time on, and it's their own form of income, you bet they should charge for it. A lot of OS projects are from companies that are already financially secure.
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