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Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

| Though, that's the old style of open source. I guess if you hire
people and pay them to work on open source, release open source, it just
might work far better.

Curiously similar to the conversation one was having at breakfast :)
regarding incidental and voluntary contributions. However, saving myself
the task of copy pasting, the section of the Linus interview Jim quotes
is perhaps relevant
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/torvalds_on_democracy_and_culture

The significant barrier to contributions in FOSS starting from a very
early age is the fact that the education system refuses to recognize the
concept of doing FOSS work (even GSoC work) as "projects".

~sankarshan

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