On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 12:26 +0530, Roshan Mathews wrote: > 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.
the largest contributor to the kernel and the GNU toolchain and many other parts of the linux OS is Redhat. > > This is not to say that people don't make money from F/OSS, KG's > friend seems to be doing quite well. and so is KG ;-) > But then there are others making > money by selling services to closed source software. but their margins are smaller -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
