LXer: The quest for more – when $20 billion isn’t enough
 

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Simon Brew wonders if there are 20 billion reasons why the spirit of open source is being distorted. Over $20bn. Twenty billion dollars. It’s an unquantifiable amount of money, which, were it to be delivered in cash, would surely result in the closure of a couple of motorways just to get it from A to B. It’s also the kind of money that’d fill a couple of buildings, and surely require half the staff of a bank to count out.

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