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This article largely forgets to include the myth that open source companies are selling services. When the business models of Microsoft and Red Hat are considered similar, anyone can recognize that the companies are in the business of selling software.

Both models have a similar problem.
When people obtain free or excessively discounted copies of Microsoft software, it's called piracy.
When people obtain free or excessively discounted copies of Microsoft software, it's called "open source".

I wonder when Red Hat will be able to cut the umbilical cord, setting loose the Fedora project, for example, and stand as a software company. The gestures toward the open source community are starting to get a bit stale, no?!
Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 04/10/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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It IS inevitable  Sabz5150 | 04/10/06
It is a defining moment, 1/3 of a billion is not small change.  DonnieBoy | 04/10/06
RE: It IS inevitable  markbn | 04/11/06
Open source piracy  Anton Philidor | 04/10/06
Have to correcft this typo.  Anton Philidor | 04/10/06
Typo or no...  Jeremy Chappell | 04/10/06
Your bill...  Anton Philidor | 04/10/06
what part are you missing Anton?  Monkey_MCSE | 04/10/06
If every buyer...  Anton Philidor | 04/10/06
Everyone *can* get RedHat's software without payment  mosborne | 04/11/06
Actually...  LinuxHippie | 04/10/06
Right question, wrong answer  Yagotta B. Kidding | 04/10/06
You have no real concept of the difference, do you?  el1jones | 04/10/06
Is Red Hat selling services...  Anton Philidor | 04/10/06
Piracy?  Richard Flude | 04/10/06
Exclusivity in open source.  Anton Philidor | 04/10/06
Where are the strategies similiar?  Richard Flude | 04/10/06
Let's try a hypothetical situation.  Anton Philidor | 04/10/06
So hypothetically they are similiar? Clearly they aren't  Richard Flude | 04/10/06
People buy from Red Hat...  Anton Philidor | 04/10/06
Consumers vs Enterprise consumer  Richard Flude | 04/10/06
Piracy (free version) helps MS just like a free version helps RedHat  DonnieBoy | 04/11/06
Who writes this drivel???  No_Ax_to_Grind | 04/10/06
It already has  Richard Flude | 04/10/06
Enterprise Versions  imcdermid | 04/11/06
Open Source Dilemma  think_tank | 04/11/06
Kinda backwards...  techboy_z | 04/11/06
Backward and forward...  think_tank | 04/11/06
Red Hat is an open source monopoly  think_tank | 04/11/06
Oh please  mosborne | 04/11/06
He's right...  techboy_z | 04/11/06
Not Silly  think_tank | 04/11/06

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