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I always thought open source in a purely profit driven society was always a bit contradictory, but it's like the wikipedia. There is just something innate in people that makes them care for their craftsmanship and their community with zero profit incentive, despite the prevailing ideology telling us that it ought to be impossible and surely about to collapse any moment now. OSS will prevail no matter Microsoft's disastrous and irresponsible stewardship of a smallish portion of it.


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