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Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by pjmlp on Thursday February 09, 2017 @04:24AM (#13605675)
The difference with open source, is that I can take you out of business with the code you wrote yourself.
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Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by wpietri on Thursday February 09, 2017 @06:39AM (#13606217)
Sure, there are differences, but I'm not sure that's one of them. Can you name some companies where that has happened? I'm pretty sure I can name a lot more where it hasn't.
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Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by pjmlp on Thursday February 09, 2017 @07:11AM (#13606358)
I don't keep track of it.

It is however a possibility.

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Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by ccozan on Thursday February 09, 2017 @07:27AM (#13606422)
The biggest counter-example is RedHat.
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Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by pjmlp on Thursday February 09, 2017 @07:38AM (#13606470)
You mean CentOS and Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel ?
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