>Doug Henwood said on 8/12/99 3:54 PM
>
> >So what do you Linux fans out there make of Red Hat going public? How
> >can you make money distributing free, open source software? Is it one
> >of the final acts of the dot.com mania that anyone would buy the
> >stock?
>
>It has a number of products and a user base. If they put together the
>installers that make the setup of the OS as simple as a mac install (or
>even windows) first, they've got the market. It's true value added. If
>they have the money to develop, the market will be huge. Linux runs on
>all of the discarded machines that you can find and will function as an
>enterprise server.
Ok - how long can the rest of it last, or will the logic of profit maximization take over?
Doug