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To: Garth Tater
All of them--Cisco, Steam games (well over 1000 now), tons of HPC software, Oracle database, Firefox (makes of profit from advertisers, etc--not from users which are basically its product), VMware (ESX is Linux-based).

Red Hat is a billion-dollar company, profiting from Linux.

Trend Software charges a pretty penny for its anti-malware software.

BRU Backup software charges between $499 and $4,999.

Here's a list of proprietary software--all from companies making a profit.

That profit may not necessarily be a cost-to-the-user purchase price, but they are still making a profit from Linux. The business model is just a little different than you may want. A lot of the above software do charge for copies of their product. Some don't.

42 posted on 04/25/2019 2:21:52 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce
All of them? Well, okay, I guess if you just want to count the ones that are making a profit and not the failed attempts like Daniels...

The open-source community provides free development and free support. High barriers to overcome for a for-profit operation.


"The business model is just a little different than you may want."

Pays me no nevermind. I made my money in the for-profit world and the open-source community. Now I just enjoy watching the tech titans (and the little fools like Daniel) try to fight back the inevitable. Good times all around!

43 posted on 04/25/2019 2:33:10 PM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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