Big Debian Linux Payday For HP

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 23, 2007 6:18 AM EDT
InternetNews.com; By Sean Michael Kerner
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Who said you can't make money by supporting free community-based Linux distributions? HP is making $25 million by supporting the free Debian GNU/Linux distribution in what may ultimately turn out to be a challenge to commercial distributions from Novell and Red Hat. HP announced in August 2005 it would be offering support services for Debian, which has been one of the most popular and widest deployed community-based Linux distributions since its inception.GNU/Linux.

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Great. And now... jezuch 1 844 Feb 23, 2007 2:59 PM

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