__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Sunday 11 February 2007 08:20 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ 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.
>>
>
> Well, okay, but he's not particularly knowledgeage about economics,
> either.
Which is why he works in a no-name college, just like Erik (who apparently
left or got sacked some time ago).
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