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The moat with the Red Hat model is the trademark. Someone else can build an alternative (such as CentOS), but they cannot call it Red Hat and they have to do th
by gregwebs 6y ago
The moat with the Red Hat model is the trademark. Someone else can build an alternative (such as CentOS), but they cannot call it Red Hat and they have to do their own brand development.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y agoI think Red Hat is pretty unique. In the decades since Red Hat was founded, I don't think a similar company has emerged at Red Hat's scale and reputation.
- gregwebs 6y agoThere are other open source companies using the Red Hat licensing model now such as Chef. Some are coming to the realization this license style is the only one where the goal of both being open source and having some kind of moat are easy to accomplish. Otherwise every time you start a new code repository you need to think about its license and your future business strategy.