On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:39, Roshan Mathews <rmath...@gmail.com> wrote: > There must be other companies which make money from Free and/or Open > Source software, but it would be hard to imagine that (m)any of them > have greater revenues than those generated by the largest grossing > closed source software. > It seems that the largest contributors to F/OSS don't make their money by selling support and/or software, but rather services built on them - Google, Facebook. I don't know what Oracle, IBM make from F/OSS.
This is not to say that people don't make money from F/OSS, KG's friend seems to be doing quite well. But then there are others making money by selling services to closed source software. -- http://roshan.mathews.in/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
