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Musing about opensource billionaires

April 16th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Four pillars

Hugh asks how come there aren’t any opensource billionaires. Actually, I think there are a number of opensource billionaires.
When hardware meant money, there were hardware billionaires. They made money Shifting Tin, and gave software away for free. And one day there wasn’t any margin left in hardware.
Software ruled.
When software meant money, there were software billionaires. [...]

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