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Old 02-17-2005, 03:24 PM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by kaliboy2g
So is spelling, but thats beyond the point.


It all depends on who is being misplaced.


PHP for vbulliten, good idea
FireFox for I.E, good idea

It is okay in these two examples becaue the end-users arent using the product for profit.

Open-source is for non commercial use.
apache vs iis
linux vs windows

if you think open source is for non commercial use only you really don't understand the market

IBM invested a billion dollars in open source software, donating their patent portfolio because it created the maximum damage to their competitors with the minimum cost.

Hell they even sacrificed the AIX OS for linux on mainframes.

IBM makes billions of dollars generating comercial mods for their open source software.
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