Re: Pirating Ubuntu?

["Matthew Gillen" <user=50@nabble.blu.org>]

 Jarod Wilson wrote: 
> Okay, Red Hat employee mode off, pure speculation from someone who has 
> no actual knowledge about who decided what and/or why about the thought 
> of distributing RHEL freely or not: 
> 
> Consider for example, $bigcustomer thinks they have enough in-house 
> expertise, so they don't buy support contracts for their RHEL-based 
> Oracle cluster, but still gets to run on an OS certified by Oracle to 
> run their DB. Oracle gets paid, RH doesn't. (Oh wait, Oracle has their 
> RHEL respin too... How's that working out, Larry?...) But anyway, one 
> might deduce that RH feels they'd lose out on a lot of support contracts 
> if RHEL were distributed freely. I think it'd do a lot of good for Red 
> Hat's rep if RHEL were distributed freely, but who knows if that would 
> compensate for bottom line losses...