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Will money screw up the open source volunteer ethos?

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on July 9, 2007 - 8:38pm
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Yes, I'm worried about what happens when you inject money where things were volunteer.

I hope that instead funding particular improvements will support, and indirectly reward, the volunteer code and patches that are central to open source free software development.

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