[Liverpool] Money

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:36:03 +0100, Paul Johnson wrote:

> Why do people write code to give it away? Simple. They want to. Many 
> people who write free software have a day job which funds the
> production of the free software.

And a lot more are paid to write it. 75% of the code in the Linux kernel
is written by people paid to do it by the companies they work for,
because those companies benefit from having a Linux that does what they
need. The same goes for other open source projects.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

** I'm not going to get married again **
** I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house **
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