Where we all can meet..
I’ve just met one of my long-lost friends who used to be a technical guy but switched job and has joined the real-estate business for several years. Being a smart guy, he has earned fairly well and does not want to get back to IT for whatever reason :>)
During the conversation I tried to introduce to him what the open-source software concept is, how the GPL works, how OSSs do not prevent people from making money (which at first sounds like a paradox - or ‘oxymoron‘,) and how the society as a whole can benefit from these - and watched his response in the meantime, verbally and non-verbally.
As expected, I would see a strange look - perhaps he’s comparing the ‘open-it-all’ concept with the secrets he’s having in order to keep his business survive (it’s tough isn’t it) but after a while I saw brightened flash in his eyes. It was short, like any other lightning , but it did happen.
He says it sounds ‘extremely promising’ to him, and on the other hand I know he’s not completedly persuaded yet. But I do also know, at the same level of certainty, that it’ll keep him thinking about
..and I’m happy about that!
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