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From: | Rjack |
Subject: | Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed |
Date: | Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:06:49 -0400 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) |
David Kastrup wrote:
He made the rather audacious and totally unsupported statement that the "GPL software market is worth billions by now" and he ducks and runs from the challenge that his notion is simply false.Huh? There was no challenge. If there had been, it would have been easy to counter. RedHat's market capitalization is 5.29billion at the moment, their main product is RedHat Linux and an estimated 80% (including the kernel) of any Linux distribution is under the GPL.
The statement concerned the "GPL software" market (i.e. proprietary vs. non-proprietary) software. It is a category mistake to conflate "software" market with "software services" market. Sincerely, Rjack
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