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Old 06-09-2011, 03:28 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by jgaiser View Post
Redhat would probably disagree with you. They seem to be making quite a bit of money from Open Source software (Linux). Free Software doesn't *necessarily* mean you can't make money from it.
They make money from support. Then again, Oracle used to be a big partner of Red Hat. Then one day BAM -- Oracle Unbreakable Linux. It's just Red Hat Linux, but now sold and supported by Oracle. Red Hat can't do a thing about it.

It's extremely difficult and risky to build a business upon products you don't own and which anybody can copy and sell themselves.

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