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Re:A Sad Day for Rust by nradov on Friday January 17, 2020 @11:38AM (#22076167)
Commitment can't be measured. It isn't a quantifiable thing, like dollars.
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Re:A Sad Day for Rust by AnonymousPlanet on Friday January 17, 2020 @02:39PM (#22078350)
That is true and that is where the analogy ends.

I originally invented the analogy to make some friends of mine who had a very strong market oriented mindset, understand open source. This was many years ago, when the likes of Microsoft painted open source in the light of anarcho hippie communism. I needed to explain to them that open source is closer to their thinking than some Fortune 500 behemoth that is capitalism on the outside but basically socialism inside.

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