[nylug-talk] Debian and HP = Profit

[Kevin Mark]

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Who said you can't make money by supporting free community-based Linux
distributions?

HP is making $25 million by supporting the free Debian GNU/Linux
distribution in what may ultimately turn out to be a challenge to
commercial distributions from Novell and Red Hat.

HP announced in August 2005 it would be offering support services for
Debian, which has been one of the most popular and widest deployed
community-based Linux distributions since its inception.GNU/Linux.

In fiscal 2006, $25 million in hardware sales in EMEA (Europe, Middle
East and Africa) were directly related to HP's Debian support. 
more at  http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3661481
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