Linux Anti-capitalist???

[Words Of Wisdom]

Soleron said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

Nickelbackro said:

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In the open source model that Red Hat and Novell use, you get the software for free and they provide support documentation and live phone support at a price - Around $350 a year for RHEL for servers and $80/year for desktops.

 

Actually RHEL and SuSE are sold (aka not free).  However both have free companion distros (Fedora and OpenSuSE).

Well, not really. They are free, as in you can get the exact same source code as RHEL/SLED and compile it yourself without their branding to have a functionally identical thing. CentOS is RHEL in this respect. Fedora/Opensuse aren't clones of RHEL/SLED; they tend to be developmentally ahead but more unstable (in fact they function as testing grounds for future commercial releases).

They are not free in the respect that if you get CentOS instead of RHEL, you are getting CentOS.  Nearly identical (compiled slightly differently) distros are still different distros.

I never said they were clones so find another strawman to knock down.  I know the history of them quite well and have personally used all but the original Fedora (Core) distro.  Fedora is actually my favorite series of Linux too and it's not unstable.  That's a stupid myth that should have died long ago.