Mandrake 8.1 - The Sweetest Thing

[W. Wayne Liauh]

We have to be realistic.  Red Hat is able to survive because it still 
has a lot of cash (several hundred million dollars, from selling its 
stocks when the share price was in the double digits).  RH reported a 
gross revenue of about 15 million dollars at the last Q (a substantial 
drop from the same Q last year) , and a loss of a very trivial number 
(about a couple hundred $K).

I am all for free software and open software, but I am also realistic. 
 It is very expense-consuming to market a software (even it is free), to 
pay the supporting staff (QA and adm, etc), and, most importantly, to 
develop software that may not interest the volunteer developers (e.g., 
business desktop application).

Now I have just thrown a flamebait.  :-)



epsas at inflicted.net wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:36:16PM -1000, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
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>>Thanks, Warren.
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>>>Many in luau--or whatever we may want to call it--criticize the per-seat 
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>>licensing model by Caldera.  But if we consider the legal ramifications, 
>>this (per-seat license for commercial use) is, unfortunately, the only 
>>way for Linux companies to survive.  
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>Wha..?  Don't get your hopes up.   
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>Last I read, Redhat was pulling a profit. - The GNU philosophy is still alive and kicking.
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