Thanks to Bill
Longabaugh for this link.
“A leader in Linux “freeware” gets by with a little help
from Microsoft’s foes-and from its friends, too.”
“High-tech rivals have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on
joint efforts to take on Bill Gates and the Microsoft
monolith.”
“So why hold out much hope for a nascent software company named
Red Hat? Because times have changed.”
“Red Hat has 55% of the Linux market and sold 400,000 copies of
its $49 (retail) program last year, bringing in $11 million. Red
Hat doesn’t plow much money into new Linux versions. It just
gathers up new features created by the loose community of Linux
programmers.
“But not much of a future lies in selling $49 software. In
February Red Hat began offering costly support contracts.”