Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 17:43:22 +0100, Martin P. Hellwig wrote: > > > if I owned a company > > making profit on software sales (sale =! support) you sign a death wish > > for using GPL > > Apart from Microsoft, and possibly Quark (makers of Quark Express desktop > packaging software), and perhaps a few console game developers, is there > any company making a profit on software sales?
I believe Oracle is doing fine (and they appear to be trying to buy up most everybody else -- other companies which used to make profits from software sales before they got gobbled up). I think SAP and Adobe aren't doing badly, either, but I haven't checked up on them in a while. I'd be surprised if there weren't many relative minnows that I didn't think of, beyond the few "obvious" big fishes above listed. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
