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23rd January 2008 - Link Blog

Photo Matt: Act Two. Automattic is an excellent case-study of building a business on top of an open source project.

Posted 23rd January 2008 at 10:42 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 23rd January 2008.

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