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May 9th 05, 09:33 AM
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Mxsmanic wrote
Open-source software is written as a function of what geeks are willing to work on for free. In general, they work only on what they find fun. Doing something weird or challenging is fun. Getting uninteresting details to work, or maintaining software, or fixing bugs, or providing comprehensive support for even unchallenging hardware or software, is not fun. So you can really profit from open source only if the software you need also happens to be software that is fun to write. Not to rehash this argument, but I just stumbled upon this: http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=34392 This just backed up my claim that geeks in their parents' house aren't writing this stuff for free. 
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