[Gllug] dot com failure.

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On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Matthew Kirkwood muttered drunkenly:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Gordon Joly wrote:
> 
>> > It's not impossible to make money from GPL software, but it *is* very
>> > difficult, and virtually unheard of on a large scale.
>>
>> Heard of CYGNUS?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> They made money on a small scale from GPLed and LGPLed
> software.  They couldn't decide how to proceed from there
> and were bought out by Red Hat, who are bigger, but still
> only making money on a small scale.

This is mostly nonsense, I'm sorry. You make it sound like they made a
bit and then ran out of money and were bought out in short order. They
were not.

Cygnus was running on that business model (and still is, within RH) for
*fifteen years*, with a goodly number of employees, and was continuously
profitable.

This is not a short-term dot-com-and-die thing, this is *consistent
profitability*.

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