Hadron <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 07 August 2007 18:05 : \____
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> Telco dumps Red Hat for Ubuntu
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>| Providing location information to thousands of mobile phone users is all in
>>>>>| a day's work for Ubuntu Linux, which has replaced popular enterprise
>>>>>| distribution Red Hat for Locatrix Communications' mission-critical
>>>>>| workloads.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1500265380;fp;4;fpid;18
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Good for Ubuntu, and it shows that there is a viable marketplace in
>>>> software support.
>>>
>>> There is plenty more market pieslice to share, so there's no need to
>>> Linux 'cannibalism' either. In some countries, politics are written which will
>>> replace Microsoft. Of course, Gates will soon 'retire' and start lobbying
>>> instead.
>>>
>>
>> This market will grow and grow. By taking the proprietary licensed code
>> costs out of the market, the wealth will spread far more widely, and
>> will result in far more employment than you get with a monopoly
>> provider.
>
> How will there by more employment if no one is making any money from
> licensed code you moron?
>
The same way everyone does it now: Support contracts. And there's quite a
lot of money in them.
> You really are a few beans short of a tortilla do you know that?
And you seem to be incapable of retaining new information. You've been
told a hundred times about the viability of support contracts as revenue
generators for companies that distribute open sourced code, yet you
never remember.
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