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Re:Ruby hacker proposes to quit his job and work only on OSS... by jmelesky on Monday March 03, 2008 @03:49PM (#128317)
On the other hand, i certainly know of businesses using open source projects that would happily pay someone external to fix a bug or add a feature to a given project. Why they wouldn't just assign one of their own developers is a mystery, but that's the way it is.
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Re:Ruby hacker proposes to quit his job and work only on OSS... by boucher on Monday March 03, 2008 @04:25PM (#128337)
There are plenty of businesses that do pay people to work on various open source projects. Google, Apple, IBM, possibly even Microsoft.
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