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Quoting John Posada <JPosada -at- isogon -dot- com>:
> No money in selling software -> no money for software R&D -> no "GREAT"
> software.
Your chain of reasoning works right up to the point where it meets the facts.
Free and open source software has produced dozens of great apps - so many that
it's getting rare to find a high tech company that doesn't use some of it
somewhere.
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Bruce Byfield bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com 604-421.7177