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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...
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