Does Gordan's Lemma hold in infinite dimensional vector spaces?

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Gordan's Lemma: Let $A \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$. Then exactly one of the following two statements is true:

  • There exists $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$ with $Ax > 0$, or
  • There exists nonzero $y \ge 0 \in \mathbb{R}^m$ with $yA = 0$.

Does this statement still hold if $m$ is countably infinite? If so, does this fact follow easily from the finite-dimensional setting or does it require significant new machinery?