gideon....
10.000 companies do not "sell" their linux...this is the problem with you...your "out of ass" figures ...you try to imply that their combined sales come anything close to 218billion LOL ... not to mention how infinitely stupid your example is when "10.000" companies working your free model make less than 1 does working my "pay if you want to use" model AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAA
gideon logic:
the moon is not as bright as the sun but 10.000 moons are! = the moon is better!!!!!! 
i was not claiming that it is impossible to make money without pirates being sent to jail where they belong, I was claiming that your free model is SHIT... get it now? the fact that your model made 1 billion for your company and 218 billion for mine leaves no room for any interpretation other than: FREE IS OBVIOUSLY SHIT being that 4 private people in microsoft EACH have more personal wealth than your whole example/company combined LOL
the moon is not brighter than the sun....get over it....
oh your "10% is not one in a million"
the sundance film festival is one in thousands of film festivals:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_festivals
so kickstarted funded 10% of the films in one in a thousand film festivals....WOW WOOOOOOOW
what are film festivals mostly known for? SHIT MOVIES!!!! LOL
this is just going to kick ass your business model is!!!!!!!!!!
oh and you "forgot" to tell us how much money you are making!
notice how I put "forgot" in quotation marks to accentuate my sarcasm
... I bet you will keep "forgetting" ... I won't forget to remind you tho