31 Jul
2010
31 Jul
'10
5:16 p.m.
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:22:00 pm Florian Klämpfl wrote:
I think you miss one important point here: to contribute to an OSS project one must be rather idealistic or even religious about it (yes, this includes me ;)).
"Must"?
That's probably why Microsoft agreed to match Jeff Atwood's donation of $5000 to support OSS Dot-Net development. Microsoft is famous for being idealistic and religious about open source.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/06/supporting-open-source-projects-in-...
Not to mention idealistic and religious companies like Fujitsu, HP, Skype, to mention just a few...
http://www.postgresql.org/about/sponsors
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Steven D'Aprano