[Info-vax] Thoughts on VSI Community License Program

[Dave Froble]

On 8/15/2020 12:20 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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.

It is my understanding that Red Hat charges for support, and not fees 
for using Linux.  Perhaps I'm mistaken?

> 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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