[craig-faber]

The author doesn't quite get, or fails to mention, that many companies that use Linux or make money from it, like Google, IBM, Motorola, Red Hat, Trolltech, etc., invest money and programmer time back into the open source projects they get software from - and this is not exactly altruistic. Still, not a bad article.

[jeroen]

Indeed he doesn't mention it, but this gives me the impression that he does _get_ it:

"Clever entrepreneurs and even established companies can profit from this volunteerism--but only if they don't get too greedy. The key, Benkler says, is 'managing the marriage of money and nonmoney without making nonmoney feel like a sucker.'"

When IBM invests in OSS the above is exactly what they're doing: giving back part of their profit to keep everybody happy.