Comment by TingPing
1 month ago
It makes zero sense for traditional distros to have payments. They exclusively repackage software. You want direct to customer platforms (Snap, Flathub, etc).
1 month ago
It makes zero sense for traditional distros to have payments. They exclusively repackage software. You want direct to customer platforms (Snap, Flathub, etc).
The dnf, deb, or pacman tools could point to a repo where the packages have paid activation.
Companies can already do that. This is how redhat works in its entirety.
This has nothing to do with the base distribution
I don’t remember ever having to activate a piece of RedHat code after downloading it. I do remember paying a subscription to have authentication to particular repos. It’s been a while, though.