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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Killian who wrote (1177)	3/1/1999 12:39:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 2615

Yes. This thread is public. -JCJ

To: Killian who wrote (1177)	3/1/1999 1:05:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2615

Is this co. public? Linux is not owned by any particular company. The software itself can be downloaded for free or purchased in CD-ROM format with no manuals from any number of places for literally a couple of bucks. There are a few companies, like Red Hat, that sell distributions of the software on CD-ROM, manuals and support. I'm not familiar with any public company that makes a lion's share of its revenues/profits from Linux. Maybe someone else here does.

To: Killian who wrote (1177)	3/1/1999 1:24:00 PM
From: Judd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2615

Linux is the name of an operating system kernel. It is free. Most (all) of the software that helps it to be an operating system is written under the GNU license, which basically means that it is open source and free, and any derivitive works of it must be open source and free. It is mostly written by people all over the world who see the need for an inexpensive, fast, reliable operating system running on intel/PC hardware. Before Linux, there was none, and still isn't, except for Solaris (free for individual use). AFAIK, no one on this thread has found a good Linux play, except maybe Applix, I'm not sure about this yet. You could start at: linuxworldexpo.com and look at these companies. My guess is that Sun, and Intel will benefit from Linux, and possibly Caldera, Applix. I would bet that any software/hardware company who targets Linux will make money from it. I hope to make money from it someday :) Judd