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In article <m290ikshat.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
David Kastrup  <dak@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
>Cygnus, The Open Group (X11),
>Netscape,

Netscape actually makes money selling advertising and servers.  I don't
believe they make much off of the open source.  (On the other hand, maybe
they do sell enough "professional edition" software to count.)

>Adaptec (new drivers from them for Linux),

That's not making money from open source, that's making money from hardware,
and selling more of it by making the drivers open source.

>Corel Computing (with its NetWinder products)

?  Never heard of this.

Anyway, I once got a $10 donation to help fund my web page, and there's
some open source there, does that count?  :)

I have a business plan involving selling support for free software; if it
ever starts making money, one of my goals would be to start adding developers
who would enhance the software.  All the new features would get distributed
instantly back to the main tree; the sole reason to do this would be to
attract users to the software I want to support.  :)

-s
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