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In article <D3LKyF.GM7@ssbunews.ih.att.com>,
-Shumway J.F. <phread@ihsdv1.ih.att.com> wrote:
>I believe that once upon a time there were a few (maybe only 1)
>companies who packaged and supported GNU software for the more
>popular platforms. One of these firms (Cygnus?) even vended a
>CD-ROM containing sources and compiled objects.
> 
>Before I mix too many metaphors here, do any of these outfits
>still exist, did this service strategy put food on the table and
>shoes on their children's feet? Does anyone still support GNU
>tools for a living? How might I get in touch with firms in this
>business.

Thanks for checking back.  The world has grown and expanded a lot
since the early days of Cygnus.  I venture to say that exponentially
more people are making money in and around free software, in a wide
variety of ways.  There are those that sell CDROMs, there are those
that contract to write code, I think some of the CDROM vendors are
even starting to work on improvements to the software...

So alive and healthy.  As to the other questions, I just ate dinner,
while I have no children yet, I did buy new shoes about three weeks,
does that count?

You can WWW on over to http://www.cygnus.com/ to see all of our shiny
faces, and read about what we're doing and what we offer.