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cabalamat on June 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Eric Raymond: Why I think RMS is a fanatic, and wh...

> No one makes money selling web servers or compilers for Unix, because it's not possible to compete on price with "free".

That may or may not be the case. However, it certainly doesn't stop high-quality compilers and web servers being written for Unix.

dpark on June 11, 2012 [–]

I never said it did.

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