{"id":1575,"date":"2007-04-26T16:02:53","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T14:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2007\/04\/26\/open-source-bilionaires\/"},"modified":"2007-04-26T16:04:22","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T14:04:22","slug":"open-source-bilionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2007\/04\/26\/open-source-bilionaires\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Are All the Open Source Billionaires?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/archives\/000842.html\" target=\"_blank\">Coding Horror <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> If Open Source software is free, then why bother spending money on <a href=\"https:\/\/partner.microsoft.com\/global\/program\">Microsoft Partner<\/a> stuff? I already know what Microsoft&#8217;s detractors will say: &#8220;There&#8217;s no reason whatsoever. $40 billion per year is totally wasted.&#8221;<br \/>\nThis, however is not a very satisfying answer, simply because it doesn&#8217;t quite ring true. <strong>Otherwise there&#8217;d be a lot more famous Open Source billionaires out there<\/strong>, being written up in Forbes Magazine or wherever. And Bill Gates would&#8217;ve been ousted years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>There are real millionaires&#8211; even billionaires&#8211; who built companies on open source software.<\/strong> Just ask Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Or the YouTube founders. The real money isn&#8217;t in the software. It&#8217;s in the service you build with that software.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Coding Horror If Open Source software is free, then why bother spending money on Microsoft Partner stuff? I already know what Microsoft&#8217;s detractors will say: &#8220;There&#8217;s no reason whatsoever. $40 billion per year is totally wasted.&#8221; This, however is not a very satisfying answer, simply because it doesn&#8217;t quite ring true. Otherwise there&#8217;d be &#8230; <a title=\"Where Are All the Open Source Billionaires?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2007\/04\/26\/open-source-bilionaires\/\" aria-label=\"Per saperne di pi\u00f9 su Where Are All the Open Source Billionaires?\">Leggi tutto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2157,229,318,376],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blog","tag-microsoft","tag-software","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}