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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <49c6e956$0$90268$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
	Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> 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).

That's not money made by Linux.  If they didn't have Linux they would
have bought the hardware to run something else.

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

They could have made monety selling support for any OS.  So that really
isn't a selling point for Linux either.

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

What commercial software only runs on Linux?  WHat would have kept it
from running on any other Unix-like OS?

None of the supposed millions tied to Linux are in any way specifically
tied to Linux.  They were there all along.  Linux just does a better job
of hyping things so more people know its name.

bill

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