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I wish each and every single one of the open source developer who, every day, build amazing tools to make things like instagram possible would receive a tiny portion of that 1 billion dollars.

But that's not how the world works....

The real revolution of this century is not how many sheeps I can throw per day, but how huge a success the open source movement is, and what incredible companies we can build with it.



That'd actually be a really cool pledge to make as a company. Sorta like the 1% for the planet initiative, but something similar to pledge a slice of profits or revenue, or exit-event-cash to the OSS projects you depended on most.


A few companies do actually, including DuckDuckGo and Tarsnap.

http://fosstithe.org/

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/11/help-me-start-a-...


I recall the story of Yahoo giving Larry Wall enough pre-IPO stock that they effectively paid his daughter's way through college.

Umm...

http://www.salon.com/1998/10/13/feature_269/




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