Hi Ray!
Ray E. Harrell wrote:
>
> Just a question. Who pays the salaries for all of these
> folks doing free things and giving up their ideas for nothing?
Lots of the programmes which make up Linux are made by students and
other persons working at universities. The kernel of Linux was made by
Thorvald Linus at the university of Helsinki. When it became a success
the university paid Linus for several years to go on devolping the
kernel, and that university is financed by the governement of Finland.
Linus got a scientific position, and was allowed to do whatever he
wanted to do, and that was to study and develop the kernel of Linux.
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