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== Reception and impact == All or parts of software packages and services that support commerce are increasingly made available as [[FOSS]] [[software]]{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}}. This includes products from [[Red Hat]], [[Apple Inc.]], [[Huawei]], [[Sun Microsystems]], [[Google]], and [[Microsoft]]. Microsoft uses "commercial software", to describe their [[business model]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/craig/05-03sharedsource.mspx |title=''The Commercial Software Model''|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050621082004/http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/craig/05-03sharedsource.mspx|archive-date=2005-06-21 |author=Craig Mundie |publisher=Microsoft|date=2001-05-03}}</ref> but is also mostly proprietary. A report by Standish Group says that adoption of [[Open-source software|open source]] has caused a drop in revenue to the [[proprietary software]] industry by about $60 billion per year.<ref>{{cite web |title=CHAOS University Membership (Wayback Machine) |url=http://standishgroup.com/newsroom/open_source.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118001419/http://standishgroup.com/newsroom/open_source.php |archive-date=2012-01-18 |access-date=2016-08-01 |publisher=Standishgroup.com}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=March 2013}}
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