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What it mphasize is only that what at the beginning was for an important part libertarian has now become just another way to commercialize software written by developpers on the payroll.

all major ( correct me if i'm wrong ) open source projects are contributed to by employees for the most par or even by employees only.

GPL license, the little red book of any libertarian open source advocate, as even become a commercial weapon to insure commercial exclusivity ( see mysql or Qt licenses ).

statng this does not change open source history, it describ current situation
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Bill Gates likes open source.  Anton Philidor | 08/18/08
.....  Linux User 147560 | 08/18/08
He appreciates one type of open source...  Anton Philidor | 08/18/08
That's funny  John L. Ries | 08/18/08
Open source vs. FOSS  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 08/18/08
He loves the BSD "something for nothing" licence  deaf_e_kate | 08/19/08
Bravo, supremely Coxian.  TripleII | 08/18/08
Actually, he DOES  dave.leigh@... | 08/18/08
goal of the Courts is protecting profits  elderlybloke | 08/20/08
What's wrong with that post  s_souche | 08/18/08
I guess it was a political article  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 08/18/08
Libertarian?  daengbo | 08/19/08
Libertarian fits better than Socialism  jcschweitzer | 08/19/08
Unfortunately,,,  John L. Ries | 08/18/08
RE: Forbes rewrites the history of open source  Dan Woods | 08/18/08
People don't know corporations are involved in open source?  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 08/18/08
Forbes and Microsoft against capitalism?  RamonFHerrera | 08/18/08
Hmm.  dave.leigh@... | 08/18/08
BTW  dave.leigh@... | 08/18/08
Nicely put  balaknair | 08/20/08
successful cooperative behavior  jcschweitzer | 08/19/08
RE: Forbes rewrites the history of open source  saul goode | 08/18/08
Its just another one of those jabs that have never makes sense.  storm14k | 08/19/08

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