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Originally Posted by pilotbob
It is also true that most free/open source is general and or developer driven. Also, may developers that work on BSD, Apache, Linux etc are paid!
Case in point, Apple developers are PAID to work on BSD even though the software is available for free. Novell developers are paid to work on Linux. I believe JBoss has many devs on staff who's code goes into the Apache code base.
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I don't understand why it matters if the developers are paid or not. IBM has many programmers working on Linux, to their benefit. As for 4.4BSD, I doubt few of the programmers hwo contributed to it were "paid," unless you consider a grad student stipend much of a paycheck.
Misunderstood when you said "line of business." At most of the companies I have worked at, "line of business" isn't something you can buy off a shelf and run with. Usually, it's software either written in-house, or bought and heavily modified for the end user. The reason you don't see free "LOB" software isn't because people wouldn't enjoy developing open source software of this type, but because it would be almost impossible to develop Accounting software, for example, that would have universal applicability.
And the base application that supports most "LOB" software is RDBMS software- and there are very good OS softwares of this type (Postgres, MySQL, etc.).