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tadfisher on March 21, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Paul Graham has lost the plot

That the majority of Linux contributions are made by employees of companies that sell Linux nullifies your argument. Take that away, and Linux would not be near the state it is in today.

guard-of-terra on March 21, 2012 | [–]

Because they needed that code in the kernel.

Now, there would always be people who want to have that music recorded, so it would still flow.

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