[Info-vax] OT: Elephants Can't Dance

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Sun Mar 22 21:43:54 EDT 2009


Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <13946$49c28a06$cef8af62$15275 at teksavvy.com-free>,
> 	"John Smith \(not the one @ HP\)" <a at nonymous.com> writes:
>> "Neil Rieck" <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> wrote in message 
>> news:1f81536c-a5cb-4e39-8512-41e882d591db at d19g2000yqb.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> According to this link:
>> http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/open-source-biology.html (look
>> for the yellow text), the amount of money made on Linux is well into
>> the multiple billions. 
> 
> For who?

For companies selling the HW it runs on (IBM, HP, Dell).

For companies selling support on Linux (Redhat, Novell, IBM, HP).

For companies selling commercial software to run on Linux (Oracle,
IBM, Redhat).

Arne



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