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That Bible verse is Jesus talking about people having no knowledge of the kingdom of heaven. What little knowledge they have will be taken away, and that's why he's speaking in parables, and not saying things more plainly. I don't see how that applies to this article.

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You're right about that specific verse but that line is repeated throughout the Bible - some within the specific context of compounding money (Luke 19:26).

It applies to the article because the Pareto principle (also known as the Matthew effect [1]) explains why there's so many open source projects with low revenue and only a few with six figure revenues.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect

That's the thing about stories and literature, they can be different things to different people.

A story about loss can be a love song to one person, a dead loved one or a missed opportunity to another...

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