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RedHat's business is not selling GPL software. They probably sell more BSD/MIT/Apache software than GPL software, but they're not in the business of selling so

RedHat's business is not selling GPL software. They probably sell more BSD/MIT/Apache software than GPL software, but they're not in the business of selling software at all. They're in the business of selling support.

krupan 8y ago
Those are good points. As I think about it some more, it's not even just support that they sell (as in, you can call them up when there's a bug). The large enterprises they sell to value: - support - training - ease of install - ease of upgrade - indemnity (e.g., Red Hat promises to pay your court costs if someone sues for patent infringement) - stability (long term support releases) Those are all things that plain old open source by itself doesn't provide, but Red Hat does.
- mistrial9 8y ago
  business in the US has stopped paying for training, generally..
- pjmlp 8y ago
  Which are all things that usually no consumer pays for, hence the big failure of trying to sell FOSS desktop software.