Alan Cox and the End of an Era

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 25, 2008 11:05 AM EDT
Computerworld UK; By Glyn Moody
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In the beginning, free software was an activity conducted on the margins - using spare time on a university's computers, or the result of lonely bedroom hacking. One of the key moments in the evolution of free software was when hackers began to get jobs - often quite remunerative jobs - with one of the new open source companies that sprang up in the late 1990s. For more or less the first time, coders could make a good salary doing what they loved, and businesses could be successful paying them to write code that would be given away.

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