>    SPECIAL REPORT: LINUX GOES MAINSTREAM

>    Linux is gaining momentum in nearly all corners of computing, and more
> and better programs now
>    run on it. Now, it just needs a business model

> http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2002/tc20020515_3723.htm

Excellent.

As an exercise, try to produce a business model for OS/360 - a free (even public 
domain)
operating system that cost IBM billions with no obvious return.

Except total domination of the world's enterprise computing market.

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  Phil Payne
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