2006-12-30 11:30:02
"I think now the open-source world is coming to the realization that for projects to succeed they have to have funded developers," says Phillip Nelson, chief scientist at Plan Administrators Inc."Way back in the golden age, when it was believed people were doing it out of the goodness of their heart, they were still paid by somebody."
[Anyone believing FOSS developers have ever lived off the sheer goodness of their hearts is sadly naive. FOSS projects are how some hackers got jobs to pay for more hacking. Duh! - dcparris] 

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