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Our current FOSS dystopia (idiomdrottning.org)

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Our current FOSS dystopia (idiomdrottning.org)
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Language success depends on its community (bigboringsystem.com)
Spending Our Money Twice (2014) (blog.gerv.net)
The Master and the Slave, the Open and the Free (mempko.wordpress.com)
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Snowsuit Zine issue 02 (snowsuit.io)
How should I make a business case for being open-source?
So, I'm currently looking to justify an open-source development model for good chunks of our codebase at our startup (in addition to a more flexible IP policy, but that's only somewhat related). I'm curious how others have justified this from a business perspective. Current arguments for: ...
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Snowsuit Zine // issue 03 (snowsuit.io)
Fired (zachholman.com)