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"but then, the presentation talks about the value of free and open information, which nobody will pay for." Red Hat trades and works quite freely in open sourc
by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
"but then, the presentation talks about the value of free and open information, which nobody will pay for."
Red Hat trades and works quite freely in open source software. It's information is out there for everyone to use, change, fork, recompile, remarket, etc (for example, CentOS for a free alternative or Oracle's Unbreakable Linux for pay).
They're heading toward a billion dollars in revenue, probably within 3-5 years, and are continually profitable.
- brc 16y agoYou are not getting my point, so I'll try from another angle. My final post on the matter. Open source software is not information. It's software. It's a product. Red Hat get paid for delivering a product, the value is in their expertise and promise to deliver something. Maybe we disagree as to what constitutes what information is - fine - but all of my statements are to do with information, not software. To me information is what goes into the database, not what it runs on.