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Absolutely true. He could have wound up being the creator of THE major bug tracking system, used by nearly all web developers, large and small, and have created a major company that makes loads of money off of providing services, enhancements, training, etc. to the massive ecosystem of users that he created.

Instead, he runs a small, fairly non-influential company that sells a pretty minor, non-differentiated, proprietary bug tracking system that nobody in the mainstream tech community uses.

Dunno - sharing worked pretty well for RedHat and MySQL.



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