These developments mean that typical ways of monetizing open source, such as offering management tools, are less compelling than they were for previous generations of software.

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Of course, the deep pockets necessary to afford such a thing mean the typical clientele is corporate giants like Hyundai and Siemens that host their company retreats in the village-wide venue, forgoing a banal conference centre.

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Heck, most of us never even get to talk to the CEO, so what does this mean for the typical employee?

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That doesn't mean it looks like your typical Android 4.0 tablet, though.

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For many of the Mets, canceling bowling night would mean canceling perhaps the best part of a typical, often dull, spring training week.

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The median will consequently always provide a much more accurate reflection of the typical income earner in any top income group than any average or mean.

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It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars, and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man.

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The 2.20 score indicates more than two standard deviations above the mean, meaning the Niners were more than twice as good as a typical NFL team that year.

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