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   From: ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand   
      
   In message , Ezekiel wrote:   
      
   > "Lawrence D'Oliveiro"  wrote in message   
   > news:iifqr0$na6$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...   
   >   
   >> In message , Ezekiel wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> "Lawrence D'Oliveiro"  wrote in   
   >>> message news:iifiok$iin$2@lust.ihug.co.nz...   
   >>>   
   >>>> In message , DFS wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Look at all the companies based on Free Software that are making money.   
   >>>   
   >>> Redhat - who sells support-services and consulting is another.   
   >>   
   >> Good, you’re beginning to appreciate that such companies do exist, and   
   >> can actually make a profit.   
   >   
   > I also know that such companies are far and few between.   
      
   For every big US-based one, there are ten or a hundred smaller ones thriving   
   elsewhere under your headline-fixated radar.   
      
   > And just how big exactly is Redhat - not very.   
      
   They themselves have said, for every dollar of business they get, they suck   
   ten dollars of business away from their proprietary rivals. Open Source   
   overheads are naturally lower, so they can make a perfectly comfortable   
   profit with the lower revenues, even as it has a deflationary impact on the   
   whole market.   
      
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