“It’s raining penguins. Or rather, that’s what many people would
like you to think. Linux vendors are laying off scores of workers.
Linux publications are folding. So is it doom and gloom time for
Linux lovers?“Now might be a good time to take a step back and review the
facts. Economically the industry, and the world as a whole, hasn’t
been doing too great lately. We’re not shocked if GM, HP, or IBM
lays off thousands of workers, so it should come as no surprise
that Linux companies are tightening their belts too…“In general, for Linux and open source, the basic question is
how to earn money from it. The answer is to make people pay for
something they want. The trick is to identify what you’re going to
sell and how it fits into an open-source context…”
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