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Quote:Open source code, written by a community of thousands of software developers, has always been made freely available. But there are ways of making money from it

The open source movement does not object to making money. In fact, many of these programmers can afford to be choosy about how they earn.

We now have a world that has distribution costs of zero. We have just built a world-wide copying machine called the internet

The source code may be free, but there is gold in software support, training and publishing.

full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/cl...407742.stm