To: goldstategop
What McVoy's saying is that the open source software model can't be profitable. If you give it all away for free, where's the profit? DUH! Red Hat does not make a profit?
12 posted on
06/07/2005 6:02:44 AM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Red Hat makes a profit from its servers and engineering projects. The money it makes it on that side goes to supporting its open-source free Fedora Foundation. Which is exactly McVoy's point. If Red Hat weren't making money, it couldn't afford to support giving away open source code to developers. And it doesn't earn revenue off its open source projects.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".) 20 posted on
06/07/2005 6:09:17 AM PDT by
goldstategop
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
63 posted on
06/07/2005 6:58:03 AM PDT by
Doohickey
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