Aug 03, 2007 • Consumer

Pointy Haired Boss: Open Source Software is Free!

By Doug Gaff

Today’s Dilbert says it all. There are far too many "free as in open, not free as in beer" blog posts for me to rehash this is great detail (wikipedia, my post). But this comic reminds me of some simple truths:

You can use open source software commercially or otherwise (subject to the license) and never contribute anything back.

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