Re: [amsat-bb] Re: UO-2 Telemetry Decoder Software

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:57:28AM -0500, Christopher Cox wrote:
> I saw where someone indicated you make money by working for a company that
> supports open source. Where does the company make it's money to make
> payroll? 

Like I said:

> Quite a few of the developers of Debian GNU/Linux have this sort
> of job, with companies like VA Research, Progeny Linux, Linuxcare etc.
 
> How do those companies make money out of open source? Well, Progeny
> is working on a Debian-based Linux distribution, which they presumably
> intend to sell like Red Hat, SuSE etc. VA sells PCs with Linux
> preloaded. Linuxcare does Linux support.                       
 

Hamish
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