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Why am I rambling about NPR anyway? Over that last few years I've been working for a company that is 100% devoted to open source software (OSS) – specifically "open community" software such as shepherded by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) – as well as a "user" of multiple OSS projects for years before that and I can easily see the parallels of these two models.
OSS is provided free & clear and available to all. That said, everything costs money (or at least time!) and most sustainable OSS & ASF projects require time & money to continue to grow & innovate!
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