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swartkrans on Nov 11, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: WireEdit – A Full Stack WYSIWYG Editor for Network...

Of course it's about the money. Where does the engineer working on the open source software get money from to work on the project?

lucb1e on Nov 11, 2014 [–]

Misunderstanding here (bad wording on my part): what i meant by "it's not about the money" is that the advantage of open source is not that it's free, I'm happy to pay, but in the other values which the person i replied to mentioned.

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