SAMBA's value to Microsoft: $3.6 Billion...
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| The look on Brad Smith's face said it all: Our legal strategies against Free
| Software need a fundamental re-think because a major battle front just caved
| in.
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http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/09/sambas-value-to.html
Gustavo Mendes: Neoscopio Ahead of Expectations
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| Now, just a scant 3 months into their official business venture, they are
| well ahead of where they thought they would be right now.
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http://blue-gnu.biz/content/gustavo_mendes_neoscopio_ahead_expectations
Free and Open Source Software Developers Working for Free (Economics 101)
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| Individual projects behave as markets from one perspective, and code is
| currency, the medium of exchange. Just like all economic exchanges, the
| contributor offers something they value less (a fragment of code solving a
| particular need) for something they value more (the functioning software
| package in its entirety). Nobody is working for free in an economic sense.
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| For those that want to dig deep on who develops free and open source software
| and why, I would encourage spending some time with the work led by Rishab
| Aiyer Ghosh published through the International Institute of Infonomics.
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http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/09/free-and-open-1.html
Related:
http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L475
Tablets from the Mountain
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| One estimate put the price tag on creating the Linux kernel at over $600
| million. In the early days of the project I work on, Samba, a commercial
| competitor who shall remain nameless offered around $40 million for the
| rights. They were refused.
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http://www.tuxdeluxe.org/node/252
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