Is It Good For Business To Subsidize OSS Developers?

Courtesy Topix - Linux  Sat, 08/30/2008 - 08:25

As economist Milton Friedman said, 'The business of business is business.' So, does it make sense for companies to encourage their developers to contribute to the open source community ?

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