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On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:59 AM, <gsm at mendelson.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:52:27AM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>
>> I don't want a hobbyist license, keep it the way it was, free as in
>> beer, with OpenSolaris free as in speech/beer - or see your
>> multi-billion investment go down the tubes as Solaris becomes a more
>> portable version of IRIX.
>>
>
> Playing Devil's Advocate here, or see his multibillion dollar investment
> continue to make him money. With only pay-for-it licenses, Solaris is
> supported by paing customers, who have an incentive to pay for it.
>
> Seriously, name one company that acutally made money from open-sourcing
> it's products and keeping it that way?
> Geoff.
>


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