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The success of Linux and other open source projects has depended heavily on the support and investment of major IT companies, Oracle Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison said on Thursday.
"Open source becomes successful when major industrial corporations invest heavily in that open source project," Ellison said at a Tokyo news conference. "Every open source product that has become tremendously successful became successful because of huge dollar investments from commercial IT operations like IBM and Intel and Oracle and others," he said.
There are volunteers that volunteer their "personal" time and then there are "companies" that "volunteer" the paid time of their employees. I'm sure Apache has had some of each.
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Yes Larry, thats how Apache became the dominant web server platform. Through the massive amount of corporate and venture capital funding it raised.
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Oh wait a minute, sorry. Apache did it through the work of volunteers.