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I'm not sure if you're aiming to agree or disagree, but...yes totally :)

There are many other examples of the "open source business model," such as Dries Buytaert who runs Drupal and Acquia.

The point is that contributors to open source projects are willing to write code for free but not willing to wear the beepers that go off when the servers go down.

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The point is that contributors to open source projects are willing to write code for free but not willing to wear the beepers that go off when the servers go down.

But could you get 100 people to wear beepers if you told them there was only a 1% chance it'd go off?

(It's a rhetorical question. I've seen what ten part-time sysadmins can do; I don't want to imagine 100.)

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