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Cómo Se Involucran Las Megacorporaciones Con FOSS Cómo se involucran las megacorporaciones con FOSS Ing. Ricardo Naranjo Faccini, M.Sc. 2017-10-17 https://www.skinait.com/megacorporaciones-opensource-Escritos-49/ JamesJames Pearce,Pearce, ChrisChris AniszczykAniszczyk yy ChrisChris DibonaDibona ChrisChris DiBonaDiBona Director of Open Source for Fortuitously for me, the Sun workstation lab was crowded, very hot due to poor ventilation, smelly (coder odor), and the terminals were very very slow. I figured, what the heck, let's give this Linux thing a shot on a 486-16 I had lying around at home. ChrisChris DiBonaDiBona FOSSFOSS nono deberíadebería funcionarfuncionar enen lala industria,industria, peropero lolo hacehace ChrisChris DiBonaDiBona EnEn loslos proyectosproyectos opensourceopensource sólosólo participanparticipan loslos individuosindividuos productivos.productivos. 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