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Subject: Re: why support alpha??
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On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 22:26, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
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> You are welcome to "serve" the FreeBSD community in any
> way you choose.  But people volunteer their time and
> their effort to work on what they want to work on.

Surely this is one of the fundemental differences between open source and=20
commercial software development - open source developers do whatever=20
interests them and commerical developers do whatever their managers think=20
will make money.

Mark - generalising wildly
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