More on the Adobe Kerfuffle
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| This misses the point of what open source software is, and I've noted first,
| that open source probably can't provide the requirements for the industry,
| and second, that open source requires investment. The revenue stream from
| open source comes from service, not from sales, and also customizing software
| for specific clients. IBM,
| for example, has a very large consulting business based on using open source
| for many applications. Sun puts up money for OpenOffice, and makes money by
| selling an enhanced product based on OpenOffice, called StarOffice. Google is
| a major proponent of open source, financing many projects with computer
| students and universities in their "Summer of Code" program. As someone who
| uses much open source software like OpenOffice, Gaim, Firefox, and free
| software like FoxIt Reader, PDF Creator, Skype, Gnumeric spreadsheet, and
| others, I can say that this trend will only be growing, especially as Linux
| grows. We don't see it here in the U.S., but the developing economies are
| strong adopters of Linux.
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