Commercial vs Proprietary

Lawrence D'Oliveiro

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01-09-2009

In message <>, Gordon wrote:

> People who are trying out *nix need to have it explained to them the
> difference between OSS and [commercial] software.

Open Source *is* commercial--there are lots of companies making money from
it.

Perhaps you mean "proprietary", not "commercial". And yes, there are still
proprietary Unixes around as well.

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