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Re:The Internet Relies on People Working for Free by kortilla on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @02:40PM (#20998662)
>I'm saying that for a lot of open source software, virtually 100% of the beneficiaries are corporations

And this is bullshit. Most popular open source projects see heavy usage in academia, personal projects, public projects, government projects, etc. Python is a massive reason any students know how to program at all.

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Re:The Internet Relies on People Working for Free by z3phyr on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @03:04PM (#20998916)
>Python is a massive reason any students know how to program at all

At other points in our history that language would be BASIC or Pascal. Their initial implementations may not have been open source

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Re:The Internet Relies on People Working for Free by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @03:10PM (#20998976)
This is bullshit. Corporations benefit from a larger pool of students and cheaper pythons developers, Postgresql and mysql are very popular is business. By comparison, how many people use Ubuntu instead of Linux?
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