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>> No money in Linux. Its hard to pay for a $4000
>> for a booth at a trade show when your main
>> competition gives their software away for free.
>
>Or, to be precise, no money in selling software. IBM,
>for one, makes hundreds of millions selling hardware,
>support and services for Linux.
No money in selling software -> no money for software R&D -> no "GREAT"
software.
If Linux had not been around, they still would have made the millions
selling HW/Support/Services, it just would have been with UNIX...Linux
did not create the millions of dollars, they still would have had it.
