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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
Google.
Palm. hp.
Cisco. Linksys.
(just about all network gears equipment maker)
Moto.
Lenovo.
IBM.
...and, to add a few more:

Nokia (kernel, Gtk+, Qt,gstreamer, ...).
Apple (WebKit, BSD).
MySQL
Sun, now Oracle (Java, OOo, Solaris, MySQL)

Let's look at the Linux kernel contributions for a single version (2.6.39). In order of lines changed, the top 10 are:
  1. Intel
  2. Volunteers
  3. Red Hat
  4. Nokia
  5. Texas Instruments
  6. Unknown
  7. Realsil Micro
  8. IBM
  9. Consultant
  10. Broadcom

The companies mentioned above are just a very very small fraction of those who have made HUGE amount of money by selling products/services powered by opensource components. (And managed to align their interests, somewhat, with the FOSS movement still).
Absolutely.
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