Though they don't get the benefit of hundreds (thousands?) of active
developers and a few million users to bang on every development
release....
By the way... how come many people still believe that no good support is
available for Linux, when I have found that Linux support is better than
any other (there are people who actually know how linux works, if it's
broke it gets fixed......)
>
> I think though, you have to realize that the free software world is
> heavily subsidized by the non-free world. Even Richard Stallman
> came from the military-industrial complex since most of what he
> initially knew was created or funded by the same.
>
> Of course, a lot of the early efforts paid for by places like DARPA
> were freely exchanged, and I think the move away from that is part
> of what Stallman was motivated by.
>
> --
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