Ubuntu 8.04 Is Ready to Take On Windows

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On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Clayton <smaug42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  > Ubuntu is great, but the FREE model does not make much money.
>  >
>  >  Ubuntu/Canonical aren't closed to the possibility of including
>  >  proprietary stuff, and Red Hat is a multi billion dollar company SOLELY
>  >  from free software... you sell support, not software.
>
>  Sun is a 14 billion dollar company, and they are primarily focused on
>  open source (OpenOffice.org, Open Solaris, Java, some of the Sun
>  hardware is even open source), ... seems to be working well for them.

That's stretching the truth a bit
They give a decent amount to open office, but their main interest
there is learning from the OSS they donate to so they can release
their closed source Star Office package. (not entirely friendly if you
ask me)
Open Solaris is now OSS yes, but it has strings attached as well.
and Java was only released to the GPL last week from memory...

If you want to name a mega corp that's donating massive amounts into
the GPL and the like, go look at IBM.
Those guys looked into their crystal ball and saw that the future is
services based... so their entire business model is all about making
the most of that.
OSS fits very nicely with that model and allows you to profit greatly from OSS.

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