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Re:Atom Is Now Open Source by Mikeb85 on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @10:44PM (#7708352)
The /s indicates sarcasm.

Of course there is Google, Amazon, Red Hat, SUSE, even IBM uses a lot of GPL software...

Re:Atom Is Now Open Source by pjmlp on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @04:45AM (#7709204)
All server software. No one makes money from FOSS desktop software.
Re:Atom Is Now Open Source by Mikeb85 on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @12:01PM (#7710901)
Depends what you consider making money to be.

Plenty of businesses depend on FOSS desktop software, it makes them money. If I use Linux and tools like Blender, Vim, GCC, etc..., and I sell the resulting product, then I'm making money with FOSS, am I not?

Re:Atom Is Now Open Source by pjmlp on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @01:14PM (#7711409)
You are, but the guys coding the software you use are not.

So unless you make the effort to contribute back, they will have some issues to pay the rent.

Re:Atom Is Now Open Source by jbk on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @07:24AM (#7709564)
Firefox?
Re:Atom Is Now Open Source by pjmlp on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @07:40AM (#7709609)
They get paid by Google.