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Giving Back to the Open Source Community, Do We Need a Tithe?

By Alan Shimel, Network World, 12/16/2010
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Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of the DuckDuckGo search engine, has started a movement asking companies that have profited from their use of open source to set up a voluntary tithe to contribute back to the community. Weinberg talks with Alan Shimel about “giving back to the community”, which should be a guiding principle for all companies that benefit from open source. (15:33)

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