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Re: FOSS and development philosophy; was "Linux O_NONBLOCK bug/ quirk"

From	crankypuss <crankypuss@nomail.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject	Re: FOSS and development philosophy; was "Linux O_NONBLOCK bug/ quirk"
Date	2014-04-05 04:10 -0600
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On 04/04/2014 09:46 AM, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
> <snip> During the same time, a bunch of people
> who are about my age or only a little older on average have become
> 'insanely rich' (by my modest standards) despite giving all their code
> away 'for free' under GPL and that's - frankly - not because they're so
> immensely 'talented' while I'm so completely hopeless  <snip>

I can see how that might be somewhat confusing, but are these people 
working "freelance", or are they employed by some company like RedHat, 
Oracle, etc?

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FOSS and development philosophy; was "Linux O_NONBLOCK bug/ quirk" crankypuss <crankypuss@nomail.invalid> - 2014-03-29 05:17 -0600
  Re: FOSS and development philosophy; was "Linux O_NONBLOCK bug/ quirk" crankypuss <crankypuss@nomail.invalid> - 2014-04-02 04:11 -0600
    Re: FOSS and development philosophy; was "Linux O_NONBLOCK bug/ quirk" Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com> - 2014-04-02 12:57 +0100
      Re: FOSS and development philosophy; was "Linux O_NONBLOCK bug/ quirk" crankypuss <crankypuss@nomail.invalid> - 2014-04-03 03:15 -0600
        Re: FOSS and development philosophy; was "Linux O_NONBLOCK bug/ quirk" Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com> - 2014-04-04 16:46 +0100
          Re: FOSS and development philosophy; was "Linux O_NONBLOCK bug/ quirk" crankypuss <crankypuss@nomail.invalid> - 2014-04-05 04:10 -0600
            Re: FOSS and development philosophy; was "Linux O_NONBLOCK bug/ quirk" Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com> - 2014-04-05 15:53 +0100
              Re: FOSS and development philosophy; was "Linux O_NONBLOCK bug/ quirk" crankypuss <crankypuss@nomail.invalid> - 2014-04-06 03:21 -0600

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