[svlug] RedHat Linux end-of-life decisions

Robert Hajime Lanning lanning at lanning.cc
Sun Jan 25 15:33:24 PST 2004


<quote who="Anthony Ettinger">
> I'm not a GPL expert, but how come Redhat can get away
> with charging money for Enterprise Edition Linux?
> Don't they have to give it away for free under the
> GPL? (or at least offer it for free, even if it's
> buried away on some ftp server).

They don't charge for the OS, they charge for the support contract/priority
downloading that is bundled with it.

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