[Info-vax] Thoughts on VSI Community License Program

[Scott Dorsey]

Dave Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>On 8/15/2020 2:28 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <rh78q0$1km5$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
>> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>
>>>>> As far as I'm concerned, VSI should make their product free to
>>>>> everyone, with commercial use requiring support contract.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ask Red Hat what they think of such a thing.
>>>>
>>>> Red Hat didn't invest a lot of money getting the product
>>>> they started with.
>>>
>>> They did not initiate the project.
>>>
>>> But they have contributed heavily.
>>
>> Of course, because of the terms, Red Hat couldn't charge for Linux
>> itself even if they wanted to.
>
>Unless they have some other source of revenue, it appears they are 
>successful without charging license fees.

Red Hat sure does charge license fees.  You can't use a Red Hat distro 
without paying for it.  It's not cheap either.

Now, you can use a Centos distro or a Scientific Linux distro which are
functionally very close to Red Hat, but not licensed the same way.  I have
yet to find any Red Hat code, source or binary, that doesn't run fine under
Centos.  But Centos is not Red Hat.
--scott

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