Z:gnu-www-ja-rieti--377262-Nowadays there are many people/en

Nowadays there are many people making a living this way. I recently heard from somebody in South America who said that he know 30 people there who are making a living this way. South America is not among the technologically most advanced parts of the world, but this is already starting there. In 1989 or 1990, I believe, a company was started to do this kind of business, and that company was started by three people. In several years it had grown to 50 people, and it had been profitable every year. They could have kept on doing it, but they got greedy, and so they started developing nonfree software, and later on they were purchased by Red Hat.