According to a news article in Betanews (last but 2 paragraph), 472 out of the top 500 supercomputers run Linux. Only 5 of the top 500 uses Windows and the fastest one with Windows is at #15. Interesting and good news!!!
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Steve: “Why hasn’t…”
Because, Steve, no one except a handful of nerds gives a rat’s ass about which OS they run. As long as it lets them browse the web for porn, punch the monkey, and send cute LOLCATS links, why should they care what OS their machine runs? It’s not like they have the skills (or inclination) to switch it themselves. The nerds among us already know about Linux and have made their choice pro and/or con. Why should some organization spend real money preaching to the converted, the unconvertable, or the uncaring?
The whole point of free and open source is to be free like information, not free like free beer. You can still sell pre-made CD / DVD / Thumb drive equivalents, you can still charge for tech support (mind you, the IRC channels are good and free), you can still sell merchandise (just look at mandriva, lindows/linspire, ubuntu, red-hat, et cetera), and you can still accept donations. There is no requisite among FOSS that it must absolutely be non-profit, but it just so happens that it typically is.
The real difference between open source / ‘freeware’ / shareware / etc, and closed source software are two things: 1) the availability of the source code, and more importantly 2) the license used to publish it. If it is a license that allows the user to change said source code (since anyone can actually ‘get’ source codes, but not always legally or for free), regardless of whether or not credit need be given (like the WTF license, for example), it makes it a FOSS equivalent.
So, to illustrate this, you can legally download the ubuntu operating system, the linux kernel, and almost any software used by them, modify them to your liking, give credit as per their respective licenses, and re-brand it (for example, Gobuntu, a non-official variant of ubuntu) and add your own license to it. If your license closes what can be done to what you have thusly created, then you have just created closed software. However, if your license for this new product is left alone so that the next user can modify whatever they want, this is open source. Now if you want, you can also legally charge for it (making it no longer free, if you so choose), or you can accept donations and charge for tech support for your specific flavor (which does in fact keep your new OS free).
This is why Ubuntu can use Debian, gobuntu can use Ubuntu, and Mandriva can’t sue Ubuntu for using Debian, and none of them can sue the other for using the Linux kernel.
@lomelyo
How can you allow the public access to source code without the software being free?
Software that is open source is automatically free, being that anyone can compile it.
Well go ask red hat (they make billions). It’s generally called enterprise software it can still use the GPL.
you’re all clueless
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/download_mozilla_source_code
let me google that for you.
http://www.google.com/search?q=firefox+source+code&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.debian:en-US:unofficial&client=iceweasel-a
First result, mind you.
Mozilla is FREEWARE, not Open source.
If I”m wrong – show me where to get the source code.
it seems you dont know to use internet.
Mozilla is OPENSOURCE.
“The whole idea of open source means they draw in no money. or at least, not enough to sell their product”
Well then, can you tell me what Mozilla did with the $75 million they reported as revenue in 2007? Since they didn’t spend it on advertising…
@Kevin. The whole idea behind open source, is that you can modify it by offering access to the source code. It doesn’t mean it is free.
With what money would they publish said ads? The whole idea of open source means they draw in no money. or at least, not enough to sell their product, which would go against the whole free thing.
Because they don’t need to.
So why hasn’t the Linux Foundation (or Red Hat, or Novell, or IBM) bought some TV spots to the effect of:
“People ask us how good Linux can be when they give it away.”
“Linux runs smartphones, digital video recorders, netbooks, and, oh yeah, *four hundred and seventy-two* of the five hundred fastest supercomputers in the world.”