Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others
by stcredzero on Friday April 09, 2010 @08:52AM
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I agree with you re: Google. They're not a service business and could have written their own OS or used a proprietary one and not affect revenue.
Not sure what licensing fees would have done to their overhead costs in the early days.
> That's a fallacy.
> The majority of open-source sponsors are selling closed systems or services to sponsor their "free software" involvement.
Red Hat, Canonical and a large chunk of IBM GS wouldn't be able to sell those services with proprietary products - the OSS licensing of various Linux OSs, Apache, etc. are the basis for them being able to have an audience to sell their services.
I agree with you re: Google. They're not a service business and could have written their own OS or used a proprietary one and not affect revenue.