[Gllug] dot com failure.

Matthew Kirkwood matthew at hairy.beasts.org
Fri Mar 1 00:27:31 UTC 2002


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.

Matthew.


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