Making money from open source / free software

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Lloyd Budd wrote:
> On 17-Mar-04, at 17:24, Paul DiRezze wrote:
> 
> 
>>An article about dual licensing.
>>
>>http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3327101
>>
>>paul
> 
> That is a decent article, but the following does not ring
> universally true to me:
> "Open source is always a way of saving money, because
> you can produce software at a lower cost," Marten Mickos,
> CEO of MySQL, told the audience.
> 

This seems do be a rather sinister statement by the CEO.  I don't know 
much about how MySQL was developed but was it not originally started as 
open source project where a large group of people contributed to its 
production.  Now a relatively smaller group of those people are 
profiting from the free labour of others.  Isn't this is a capitalist's 
ultimate dream: free labour.

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