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Date:      Tue, 02 Sep 2003 21:27:18 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20030902212530.033d8520@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <3F553FBF.1010208@potentialtech.com>
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At 07:11 PM 9/2/2003, Bill Moran wrote:

>Nonsense.  There are a number of companies that are making a go at it
>with that model.  Look at Adobe with the free Acrobat viewer.  

Not analogous. Acrobat Reader does not come with source code.

>How about MySQL for goodness sakes?  Redhat may not be the richest company
>in the world, but they're riding out a lousy economy.

Red Hat is still squandering the money it raked in from foolish investors
during the dot-com bubble. It's had only a few profitable quarters in its
entire history, and large losses in the others.

--Brett Glass



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