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Confessions of an open source free rider

The first time I did it, I didn’t even know what I was doing. In truth, nobody in the team really did. It was in the mid 80’s. The pre-copyleft era. We needed to write specialized compilers for a distributed LISP and a distributed PROLOG. They would compile for dual-core CPUs embedded in blade-like boards each connected to a fast bus and sharing memory. Lots of work; good pay though.
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http://blog.milkingthegnu.org/2008/05/confessions-of-an-open-source-free-rider.html

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