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Old 06-08-2011, 09:08 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by bhartman36 View Post
There was a lot of shareware developed in the 80's and 90's. It was not a successful model then. To the best of my knowledge, it's not a successful model now. That's not to say that it doesn't still get developed, but it gets developed by people who don't care whether or not they actually make money.
Redhat would probably disagree with you. They seem to be making quite a bit of money from Open Source software (Linux). Free Software doesn't *necessarily* mean you can't make money from it.
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