Bill Lear: > >I suggest those interested in this should take a look at what the Free >Software Foundation has done. Coincidentally, our shop (Dejanews) is >almost 100% run on "free" software (Linux operating system, FSF/GNU >tools, etc.). The amount of sharing of ideas across firms is probably >quite low, but free software does allow some of this to occur. That's >also one thing notable about Usenet newsgroups---they allow a great >deal of software development to be done by a widely-dispersed set of >people who, more or less, get an equal say in how things are done. > The guy who started the Free Software Foundation--Bill Stahlmann
