"Rod Johnson, the creator of the popular open-source Spring framework, has boiled down the question of open-source business viability to a simple formula.
"If you want open source to thrive, find people who create the intellectual property and talk to them," says Johnson.
He argued that to create innovative products, somebody needs to be paid. Paying the programmers of a given project directly through support contracts is the best way to ensure that product will endure, he said."
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