if linux is an open source company and selling their products free of cost, then how they are running their company?? from where they are getting finance ??
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Jump to PostIts not "a company" but many companies/volunteer programmers with many different distributions of the operating system. One way they make money is on programming support.
Jump to Postsupport contracts and training, usually.
Extra documentation not included with the free product, book publishing rights, etc. etc.
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