Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 23, 2002 10:45 PM
While IBM is a hardware company, I believe a large amount of their revenue/profit comes from services. But, yes, I do believe that well-paid programming people actually do work for IBM, Sun and lots of other companies who contribute to open source projects.
In many cases, the value isn't in the software when it's shrinkwrapped and put on a retailer's shelf - it's in what you can do with that software, and it's in the services that you can provide to people who use it.
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Re:You can't have it both ways.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 23, 2002 10:45 PMIn many cases, the value isn't in the software when it's shrinkwrapped and put on a retailer's shelf - it's in what you can do with that software, and it's in the services that you can provide to people who use it.
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