[Info-vax] Thoughts on VSI Community License Program

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/15/2020 2:14 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Dave Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> It is my understanding that Red Hat charges for support, and not fees
>> for using Linux.  Perhaps I'm mistaken?
> 
> If you want to run the Red Hat distro, which consists of the Linux kernel
> and a lot of other open source stuff that is bundled in, as well as some
> commercial stuff, then you have to pay them money.  Once you have paid
> them money for the distro THEN you can pay them additional money for support.
> 
> You don't have to run the Red Hat distro.  You can build your own distro
> from the diverse sources out on the internet (and the Centos and Fedora
> people do just that).  But if you don't run the Red Hat distro you don't
> get Red Hat support, and you don't get any guarantees that whatever you are
> running is compatible with Red Hat.
> 
> Red Hat's basic model is to take open source code of various sorts, bundle
> them together into a combined distribution that has been tested to make sure
> everything works together, and sell it for money.   They also make money
> doing support but that is not their only revenue stream.

Hmmmm.

I have not seen any pricing for RHEL except yearly subscriptions
on Redhat web site.

Do you consider the lowest level of support (no support) yearly
subscription cost a license fee and the difference between that
and a higher level of support yearly subscription cost for
paying for support?

That is sort of what it is, but it is not how it is being
presented.

Arne