Re: GNU licenses

[Alexander Terekhov]

David Kastrup wrote:
[...]
> So you claim that they were not profitable?  How then did they survive
> and expand?

IPO scam.

Red Hat abandoned retail market in mid fiscal 2004, IIRC.

Now, here's the data (in thousands, fiscal, restated):

1997: net LOSS    1318 (-)
1998: net LOSS    3738 (-)
1999: net LOSS    6388 (-)
2000: net LOSS   43053 (-)
2001: net LOSS   86773 (-)
2002: net LOSS  139949 (-)
2003: net LOSS    6734 (-)
2004: net income 13732 (+)
2005: net income 45426 (+)
2006: net income 79685 (+)

regards,
alexander.