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<blockquote data-quote="Victor M" data-source="post: 1103152" data-attributes="member: 96560">I think &#039;the exception proves the rule&#039; is valid here.&nbsp; But the successful ones also tend not make their success known because they want to keep it a secret. As long as they don&#039;t turn corporate the public will never know. I think the word viable means different things to different people; some are content to make a $90K salary off it living in a not too trendy middle class neighborhood, and some are only satisfied when they make at least $300K in net profit in the first year.To say FOSS is anti-government and anti-capitalism is really stretching it, don&#039;t you think? I don&#039;t doubt the originators really think that they can make money out of it. It is just an over rosey idea. As in common of all visionaries, business people dream big dreams.I think FOSS is here to stay because people believe in it and there are pockets of communities. And there is a sense of altruism in it. It takes all sorts to make the world go around.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Victor M, post: 1103152, member: 96560"] I think 'the exception proves the rule' is valid here. But the successful ones also tend not make their success known because they want to keep it a secret. As long as they don't turn corporate the public will never know. I think the word viable means different things to different people; some are content to make a $90K salary off it living in a not too trendy middle class neighborhood, and some are only satisfied when they make at least $300K in net profit in the first year. To say FOSS is anti-government and anti-capitalism is really stretching it, don't you think? I don't doubt the originators really think that they can make money out of it. It is just an over rosey idea. As in common of all visionaries, business people dream big dreams. I think FOSS is here to stay because people believe in it and there are pockets of communities. And there is a sense of altruism in it. It takes all sorts to make the world go around. [/QUOTE]

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