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Linux To Ring Up $35B By 2008

Posted by michael on from the money-in-the-bank dept.

al@opensourcebrowser.com pastes "For a theoretically free operating system, Linux is -- and will continue to be -- a cash cow, a research firm said Wednesday as it predicted the OS will bring in more than $35 billion in revenues by 2008. Framingham, Mass.-based IDC said that overall revenue for servers, desktops, and packaged software running on Linux will reach $35.7 billion in the next four years."

5 of 212 comments (clear)

  1. Word, I'd like to by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SHoutout to my bitches and hoes.

  2. Re:Don't count your money before it's made. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Annother four years and 35 billion won't be very much money any more.

  3. Re:IMPORTANT: Firefox (luv hfis) by dominick · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Looks like someone is spending too much time in their parent's basement with their tighty whities shoved up their butt.

  4. Re:IMPORTANT: Firefox (luv hfis) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is it just me but this exact post appear in anything related to OSS? Seems like a Microsoft fanboy sucking Gate's cock needs Balmer's cock up his ass again.

  5. Re:Don't count your money before it's made. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I learned to be a fundamentalist Christian Republician that accepts Bush as my new savior inorder to live through the far Christian right's theocracy.