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The paradox that is Silicon Valley
- davidw 19y ago> The Silicon Valley is where people write and distribute free software and hope to make the world a better place for the whole of mankind [and, of course, make millions of dollars in the process.] I don't think this is true. I think more free software comes from other places where people have more time and less financial incentives to work on commercial opportunities. Europe produces a ton of good open source software, but then it gets commercialized or bought or something by SV companies.