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revenue vs profit

Posted Feb 26, 2007 1:50 UTC (Mon) by pjm (subscriber, #2080)
Parent article: Big Debian Linux Payday For HP (InternetNews)

Clarification: the paragraph

In fiscal 2006, $25 million in hardware sales in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) were directly related to HP's Debian support.

suggests that the $25 million in question is revenue, not profit, and is associated with significant additional hardware costs.

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