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Title	Open source and the corporate elephant
Type	Feature
Source	IDG News Service 12/12/2007
Summary	More and more open-source developers these days are employees of companies, paid to work on open-source projects, rather than independent programmers doing it for fun. The change raises issues for projects, programmers and employers alike. continue

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