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2009-11-22 , 15:17
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Originally Posted by jjx View Post
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Do you think it's wrong of Red Hat to sell Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Even though they pay the full-time salary of half the Linux kernel developers, a fair chunk of GNOME developers, and everyone knows you can get a free version, compiled from the same source, from CentOS?
Red Hat does not sell RHEL. Red Hat sells the support around it. Red Hat sells services to its customers. That is quite a difference. And believe me, all CentOS people know, that they are nothing without Red Hat, which is one of the reasons why CentOS does not advertise any support or services, though there are people doing that.

It all boils down to "please don't try to see a business model, where there isn't one". And selling open source software without an additional service stack is no business model you should rely on or try to make people morally obliged to buy into.

But I think this discussion is becoming off topic a little bit
 

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