From: Christian Szegedy (szegedy@or.uni-bonn.de)
Date: Thu Jun 21 2001 - 06:35:54 MDT
Mike Lorrey wrote:
> Whether the open source business model(s) work or not is irrelvant to this historical fact.
> The market will decide whether they do, or not. According to the president of Red Hat at a
> recent conference, they don't.
snip much ML hate-speech, market-fetishism and desinformation
Check this out:
http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2001/press_Q12002.html
| Red Hat Achieves Positive Cash Flows From Operations and Shows A
| Profit for the First Time in First Quarter
|
| Revenues of $25.6 million, adjusted net income of $600,000, and
| major customer wins are highlights in first quarter of fiscal year 2002
|
| RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina-June 19, 2001-Red Hat, Inc.
| (Nasdaq:RHAT), the leader in developing, deploying and managing open
| source solutions, today reported revenue of $25.6 million for the first
| quarter ended May 31, 2001, an increase of 18% versus the $21.7 million
| reported for the first quarter of fiscal 2001 and a decrease of 5% over the
| fourth quarter of fiscal 2001.
Anyway, I don't agree that free software is mainly a market issue, but this shows,
how accurate your "information" is.
Christian
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