Rant on Ubuntu/Linspire etc

[Man-Chicken]

On Wednesday 14 February 2007 09:25:57 Michel Daggelinckx wrote:
> Man-Chicken schreef:
> > On Wednesday 14 February 2007 08:18:57 Lokeey wrote:
> >> wow! the guy does have a good point. it would be interesting if that
> >> even remotely hapened.
> >>
> >> On 2/14/07, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Note that this was written well before the announced cooperation
> >>> between Canonical and Linspire;
> >>> http://tinyurl.com/2yg9gs
> >>>
> >>> might irritate some (many?) but he has his points. Matt Hartley once
> >>> more...
> >>>
> >>> Sinclair
> >>>
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> > I must say that I strongly disagree with the very premise of this
> > person's argument.  The idea that Free software is just another product
> > to market, and that it's okay to stick non-free bundles in to make it
> > more marketable bothers me.
>
> The latest statistics show that around 99.9% of open source programmers
> still have to pay bills and put food on the table.

Wow.  I wasn't aware that there were statistics like this.  Please, link me to 
them.

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