Windows or Open Source: The Battle for Your Company's Computers is ...

Posted by dcparris on Dec 30, 2006 1:08 AM EDT
CIO Today
Mail this story
Print this story

"I think now the open-source world is coming to the realization that for projects to succeed they have to have funded developers," says Phillip Nelson, chief scientist at Plan Administrators Inc. "Way back in the golden age, when it was believed people were doing it out of the goodness of their heart, they were still paid by somebody."

[Anyone believing FOSS developers have ever lived off the sheer goodness of their hearts is sadly naive. FOSS projects are how some hackers got jobs to pay for more hacking. Duh! - dcparris]

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story; Groups: Community, Linux, Microsoft

« Return to the newswire homepage

This topic does not have any threads posted yet!

You cannot post until you login.