Roberto Galoppini suggests that there may be a new way to get paid for the distribution of open-source software. Multi-level marketing. Have you heard of it?
Well, I have. I’m from Utah, after all, the MLM capital of the universe. I hate the very idea behind MLM, but I concur with Roberto that there’s potentially something in this:
…[I]t isn’t uncommon to see users - read potential customers - spent a lot of time (therefore money) instead of buying commercial open source products and services. Someone, somewhere in the IT department, knows how much time spends to make things work.
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