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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