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On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 10:31:13AM +0000, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Thomas Garrison wrote:
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> > I would observe that Linux and the GNU Project seem to have done
> > fine, despite frequent commercial redistribution for a charge (by
> > Red Hat, Mandrake, etc.).
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> My understanding about that was that the charge was a media charge,
> not a charge for the library or work itself. In particular I thought a
> lot of the revenue that Red Hat receives is for support.
Actually, redhat stopped shipping free linux (with the exception of
Fedora, which isn't supported by Redhat anymore) - if you want to get
RHL, you have to pay for it now. So it's not only for the
media/documentation/support anymore.
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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