kevin lyda said:
> Lars Hecking burst across the net:
> > So much hype about the RedHat IPO.
> >
> > SuSE just published their 1999 revenues. For the fiscal year
> > 1/4/1998-31/3/1999, total turnover was about 15million US$, compared to
> > RedHat's 11million. They have net earnings (don't say how much, though ;)
> > compared to RedHat losing 130000 US$ in the same period.
>> wonder how much they spend on r&d... and what %age of that is
> gpl'ed?
I'll second that. You can say what you like about RedHat, but at least
they put some of that money back into the *whole* Linux community with
their RHAD labs.
In response to the VRT petition being the start of Irish political
lobbying on the web -- eh, not really; EFI were here a long time ago,
before the Irish politicos had email addresses. ;)
--j.
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