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Message: [QUOTE="Greg Brown, post: 4479528"] Austin put this quite well though I have to say that I've made my living off of free software thus far. Essentially I have been funded by companies to implement certain features into generic systems that they don't have much of a stake in. I make this agreement with them and all they care about is the fact that they get a product that does what they want, and they leave me free to share. To me, anything I can share with the community, I will. I do not take straight proprietary jobs simply because I never want to lock my source in a vault for life and throw away the key. There are a ton of reasons to write Free Software, and Austin mentions many of them. For me, it's just fun to share and get to know people and all of that good stuff. [/QUOTE]