On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 13:15 +0530, pavithran wrote:
> On 14 October 2010 12:26, Roshan Mathews <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:39, Roshan Mathews <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > It seems that the largest contributors to F/OSS don't make their
> money
> > by selling support and/or software, but rather services built on
> them
> > - Google, Facebook.
> Google and Facebook should be more or less considered as users of FOSS
> , they hardly contribute back to FOSS , only good thing being the
> summer of code

10 million dollars a year for a fantastic program

>  and other code releases from google which more or less
> are heavily aimed at revenue generation . On FB , its the best
> "closed" company  ever ! 

they released tornado - the pure python webserver that runs their pages
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KG
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