profit margins

Linux will continue to be Linux no matter how much money Microsoft spends or what Windows 7 does. Linux isn’t going away unless the entire Linux community decides to disperse and stop developing and growing.

It’s not dependent on profit margins…or even marketing.

Datamation: "Back then, their concern was that the various workstation and server systems had 70 percent profit margins, which they locked in through the use of proprietary APIs.

It was too expensive to port a customer's software to another brand, and thus the workstation vendors were able to hold on to that customer."

This is the story of the OLPC project since it was announced in January of 2005. Intel and Microsoft are monopolies that used brute force to delay the OLPC non-profit open-source project from starting the cheap laptop revolution, taking away the profit margins from a multi-hundred-billion dollar laptop and PC industry.

March 25, 2002 - Web hosting, and particularly shared hosting, is a competitive business that often yields low profit margins.