“The Linux operating system is the recipient of 75% of all
vendor investment in open source software, according to a new
report from the Harvard Business School, which also indicates that
vendor support for open source is primarily motivated by boosting
their proprietary offerings.“The preliminary draft report suggests that $2bn was invested by
vendors in open source software between 1995 and 2005, with $1.5bn
plowed into Linux, $317m into the Firefox browser, $76m into the
OpenOffice.org productivity suite and $48m into the MySQL
database…”
Computer Business Review: Linux Grabs 75% of All Open Source Investment
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