Comment Re:Hmmm... (Score 1) 218
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Okay, I'm not up on the latest figures (I was going reports from last year and earlier this year).
I also would like to point out that this doesn't mean that this isn't a sustainable business model (there are enough examples of businesses making losses in the traditional models :)
I perhaps used the wrong example (based on current figures) though this is also debatable depending on what that loss is based on. There are companies out there being very successful on the OS/FS model - their profits are simply derived from related services/products (CDs, books, etc).
I look at the products coming out of the various software development camps and see most of the innovation coming out of the FS/OS models (although the large corporations dominate on the smaller distribution mammoth specialized programs).
Okay, I'm not up on the latest figures (I was going reports from last year and earlier this year).
I also would like to point out that this doesn't mean that this isn't a sustainable business model (there are enough examples of businesses making losses in the traditional models
I perhaps used the wrong example (based on current figures) though this is also debatable depending on what that loss is based on. There are companies out there being very successful on the OS/FS model - their profits are simply derived from related services/products (CDs, books, etc).
I look at the products coming out of the various software development camps and see most of the innovation coming out of the FS/OS models (although the large corporations dominate on the smaller distribution mammoth specialized programs).
