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														| 179 |  as a solution to mass surveillance and respectful browsing on the Web, and
 | 179 |  as a solution to mass surveillance and respectful browsing on the Web, and
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														| 180 |  the Wikimedia Foundation works, (partly) by developping their software, towards
 | 180 |  the Wikimedia Foundation works, (partly) by developping their software, towards
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														| 181 |  providing free and reliable knowledge to the world.
 | 181 |  providing free and reliable knowledge to the world.
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 | 182 | +
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 | 183 | +Another kind of structure that can be found in the free software ecosystem is a
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 | 184 | +company. Because of the changes in the software industry pushing developers
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 | 185 | +towards not selling the software they've created, but rather selling their expertise
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 | 186 | +to use, host or hack it, companies are now able to get some money in while working
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 | 187 | +exclusively on free software. Some companies are selling hosting of their service,
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 | 188 | +such as [GitLab](https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/), others are selling corporate
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 | 189 | +support for companies using their software like [Matrix.org](https://matrix.org/)
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 | 190 | +does. And it ususally works, because who can help you out with a piece of software,
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 | 191 | +or host it for you, better than the people making it?
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 | 192 | +
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 | 193 | +Last, but not least, a few projects are also lead by independant developers working
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 | 194 | +as freelancers. Examples are way fewer than for the two first structures, but they
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 | 195 | +do exist. Take a look, for example, 
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