Conversations With My Dad About Open Source

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 9, 2008 4:20 PM EDT
Linux Magazine; By Bill Baker
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My father was one of those old school guys when it came to adopting computer technology. He managed to build and run a successful company, and retire in 1998, without ever actually having a computer in his office. It was just never an absolute necessity for him to do his job. During the early years of the Internet, it took him a while to get his mind around the business model. Back in the go-go dot-com days, he would look at the IPOs and say to me, “Am I missing something, or are these guys selling one dollar bills for 80 cents? How is that a sustainable business?”

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