On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 15:27, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> > C. Can open source development really match commercial investment in
> > programming? if so, please provide examples of programs which have
> > not had serious private capital investment? (I am struggling....)
>
> Apache.
> http://www.apache.org/

Sendmail
Postfix
Mailman
Python
Gimp
KDE
KOffice
Abiword
Perl
PHP
Ruby
GnuPG
KDevelop
gcc
PostgreSQL
... the list is almost endless.

come to think of it, there is only a single open source software I use day to 
day that had any mentionable capital investment and that is OpenOffice, but I 
increasingly tend to use the more lightweight and *practical* KOffice suite
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