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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-21 01:00:02
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Removed some specific company names from here, particularly because the
information is somewhat out of date.

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 Using Free Software in house is certainly helpful, but a thriving
 market for Free Software-oriented business models also exists. There is the
 traditional model of selling copies of Free Software distributions.
 Many companies, including IBM and Red Hat, make substantial revenue
 from this model. IBM primarily chooses this model because they have
 Many companies make substantial revenue
 from this model. Some choose this model because they have
 found that for higher-end hardware, the cost of the profit made from
 proprietary software licensing fees is negligible. The real profit is
 in the hardware, but it is essential that software be stable, reliable
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 be assured that proprietary versions of the same software will not
 exists to compete on their hardware) is the right choice.
-Red Hat has actually found that a ``convenience fee'' for Free Software,
+For example, charging a ``convenience fee'' for Free Software,
 when set at a reasonable price (around \$60 or so), can produce some
 profit. Even though Red Hat's system is fully downloadable on their
 Web site, people still go to local computer stores and buy copies of their
@@ ... @@
 embedded targets. Eventually, Cygnus was so successful that
 it was purchased by Red Hat where it remains a profitable division.
 However, there are very small companies like CodeSourcery, as well as
 other medium-sized companies like MontaVista and OpenTV that compete in
 However, there are very small companies that compete in
 this space. Because the code-base is protect by GPL, it creates and
 demands industry trust. Companies can cooperate on the software and
 improve it for everyone. Meanwhile, companies who rely on GCC for their
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 copyright law to license a software system under her copyright as many
 different ways as she likes to as many different parties as she wishes.
-Some companies, such as Oracle, use this to their
 Some companies use this to their
 financial advantage with regard to a GPL'd code base. The standard
 version is available from the company under the terms of the GPL\@.
 However, parties can purchase separate proprietary software licensing for

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