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= Michael Mullin's Report on FSOSS =
== The Important Things we need to Remember ==
Solutions build on Solutions.
Wants + Purchasing Power = Demand.
Why is my bias important? Because I am writing this paper, and you are reading it. If you cannot understand where I have been, then you will not understand where I am going with my logic and reasoning.
The key to life is getting paid to do something you love, and thats what I am trying to look for. I really love programming, when I have to time to sit down and dedicate 6 hours to the mozilla code base trying to solve my project, I am having a great f'in time. Other open source projects would no doubt derive the same pleasure in me, and in this wiki-report I have discussed two other open sourced projects which seam very interesting to me.
What I am left with as I leave the FSOSS is the belief that employment in the world of open source is possible. On projects like METRo undiscovered fountains of wealthy lay hidden, waiting for a lucky prospector to come along and strike gold (or perhaps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrite pyrite]). With projects like XEN, large mining facilities have already been established, and those with the pick and shovel of knowledge can come assist the extraction process. Companies already understand the powers of open source (Microsoft & Novell understand the wealth possibilities of backing the XEN project). As more contributions are made to METRo governments are seeing how open sourcing in house software can help them as well. Governments and business both require experts to continue the work of open source projects, and if I am industrious enough and become and expert, I too can work on open source.