Posted by: Charles Tryon
on August 28, 2003 10:22 PM
> Please, who can earn money off Linux? RedHat certainly cannot, the only reason they are still in Business is because of the interest they get from their invested IPO monies.
Ummm... Just stepped out of a time machine from somewhere in the past? Red Hat is now turning a profit, in cas you hadn't noticed. Not a lot, but it's steadily growing. IBM seems to be doing just fine, making money off of hardware... that is running Linux. They don't exactly turn a "profit" off the OS, but it saves them lots of R&D money that they'd otherwise have to spend on outdated OS'es that no one else really wants to write new applications for.
BTW, the GPL does protect Intellectual Property. It just doesn't allow corporations to PIRATE that technology from smaller developers - the people who wrote the code in the first place. SCO isn't concerned with "protecting" IP. They want to be able to legally PIRATE it themselves to put it in their proprietary OS.
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Posted by: Charles Tryon on August 28, 2003 10:22 PMUmmm... Just stepped out of a time machine from somewhere in the past? Red Hat is now turning a profit, in cas you hadn't noticed. Not a lot, but it's steadily growing. IBM seems to be doing just fine, making money off of hardware... that is running Linux. They don't exactly turn a "profit" off the OS, but it saves them lots of R&D money that they'd otherwise have to spend on outdated OS'es that no one else really wants to write new applications for.
BTW, the GPL does protect Intellectual Property. It just doesn't allow corporations to PIRATE that technology from smaller developers - the people who wrote the code in the first place. SCO isn't concerned with "protecting" IP. They want to be able to legally PIRATE it themselves to put it in their proprietary OS.
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