Re: Linux Market?

I.P. Nichols wrote:
In the last year 100 million Vista licenses have been sold for which Microsoft received a "gob" of money. What happens to the money Microsoft received. Most of it went to pay employee salaries and infrastructure costs with some also going to reward investors. However you split the pie, most of it ends up in the pockets of employees who feed and clothe their families, pay their mortgages, educate their children, pay their taxes, etc. Society benefits from such enterprise.

Question - if instead of 100 million boxes with Vista licenses being sold those 100 million boxes were sold with Linux factory installed how would the people who developed Linux be rewarded? How do they feed and clothe their families, pay mortgages and educate their children? Leaving aside the Richard Stallman arguments, how does society benefit from 100 million copies of Linux which the FOSS developers provided for free?

Ah, The Broken Windows Fallacy! :)

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