__/ [ thad01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Friday 09 February 2007 23:42 \__
> amicus_curious <ACDC@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> As smug as the OSS proponents are, they are making a terrible showing in
>> commerce. Their flagship Red Hat posted a $58M profit on gross sales
>> revenues of $278M while the deeply troubled Microsoft could only muster a
>> $16, 472M operating income on gross revenues of $44,282M. To put that
>> into perspective, with about 250 business days per year, Microsoft has
>> more
>> action in any one day than Red Hat for a full year. The OSS proponents
>> like to claim the moral high ground, of course, but they are loath to look
>> at the scoreboard.
>
> Two points at issue here:
>
> 1) Using profits to measure the success of OSS is the wrong way to look
> at it. Open source is a development model, not a business model. You
> need to look at deployment figures and the money it SAVES the people
> who use it to get the real picture.
Bill Weisgerber (amicus_curious) in in econmics. He doesn't understand
computing. He only speaks the language of money and people elsewhere have
argued that he gets paid to post in forums. It's all about money to him.
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