- Red Hat, which just reported a profit of $47.9 million (or 26 cents a share) on revenue of $456 million for its third quarter, has managed to pull off a tricky feat: It’s been able make money off of free, well, open-source, software. (It’s profit for the year-ago quarter was $52 million.) https://gigaom.com/2014/12/19/red-hats-success-aside-its-hard-to-profit-from-free/ 177 comments linux
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