On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 07:18, Yogesh Girikumar <[email protected]> wrote: >> , for eg. canonical ltd. provides ubuntu >> os for free of cost even they are shipping cd for free,there is a team >> to work who is paying them. how they run the organization without >> getting penny amount from people. >> > I hear that "Mark Shuttleworth" (who founded and probably is funding > canonical) is a "very rich" entrepreneur. He's the second self-funded space > tourist !! He is a venture capitalist and has his own private jet. That > apart. Canonical also sells support. > Shuttleworth made his money from proprietary software when he sold Thawt to Verizon. Canonical might have some revenues, but they are not profitable yet. RedHat makes money (and profits) by selling Open Source software, and support.
There must be other companies which make money from Free and/or Open Source software, but it would be hard to imagine that (m)any of them have greater revenues than those generated by the largest grossing closed source software. Roshan -- http://roshan.mathews.in/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
