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Correct me if I'm wrong but Red Hat is open-source isn't it?
Yes, but that does NOT mean free. It means that they can do whatever they want, whether it's selling one copy a year at 1 million dollars, a million copies at one dollar, or giving it away. The only requirement is that any changes they make be released back to the community. There's no requirement for them to even provide a distribution, iso's or rpm's. Only the sources. That's why any freely available iso image is done above and beyond the legal requirement, and should be considered a gift for free. Failure to remember this makes most people consider it mandatory that a distro be freely downloadable, which it isn't. Any one of them could say (like Caldera did) that they're only going to release the source code, you'll have to download, compile, and build your own iso's. Thankfully, most don't.
I seem to recall that Caldera went down a similiar road and their apologists applauded them for wanting to make money so they could continue churning out open-source for a fee. Now the son of Caldera (SCO) wants to sue everybody who uses linux. Kinda makes you wonder when RH is going to sue everybody using RPM.
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