On 07/03/28 23:17 +0530, Cheedhu said ...
> I recently visited redhat.com to download RHEL5

You can download the source SRPMS for all the RHEL packages but the
binary packages are not available for free download.  Compiling these
SRPMS isn't all that easy either.  This is how RedHat makes money.

There are some distros out there (like Centos) which give you the
binaries based on RHEL sources.

> What does this mean for the OpenSource and its Freedom

Not much of a difference, I would say.  The sources are still open and
you are free to do whatever the license permits you to do with it.  Let
RedHat make some money :).

Giridhar

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Y Giridhar Appaji Nag | http://www.appaji.net/


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