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Comment by jordigh

7 years ago

I grieve the most that this will really weaken the argument for commercial free software. We could always say, look at Red Hat, they don't sell a drop of non-free software. It's possible to be free and commercial!

I doubt Red Hat will continue to operate this way, especially if they are receiving money from IBM's other ventures. I hope there's room for another Red Hat in this world.

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colordrops  7 years ago

Red Hat used to sell non-free software using the freemium model with Redhat Enterprise. Is that no longer the case?

  • jordigh  7 years ago

    No, RHEL isn't freemium. They sold you access to the source code. You also have the right to redistribute RHEL, which is how CentOS happened.

    I understand they did threaten to terminate support if you redistributed, but they couldn't stop you from doing so if you so chose.