> But the major open source licenses all say "here are my wares, no charge, feel free to redistribute to all your friends too" It seems you've misheard then. A

> But the major open source licenses all say "here are my wares, no charge, feel free to redistribute to all your friends too" It seems you've misheard then. Any vendor is saying "here are my services, here are my prices" and customers will pay (the real customers that is). The open source licenses are part of the deal but not an intrinsic part of the business, hence the distinction makes sense. It's up to us engineers to say: (1) I demand source code for my own benefit; (2) hey dude, pay for a RHEL subscription, apparently that money/power trickles to the actual engineers that do useful things for my own benefit! The rest of the world simply does not know about these two types of benefit if engineers don't speak. For (2), it's understandable that people think RHEL subscription is just 100% money wasted if they don't go opening any support tickets. Where instead maybe 90% of the money does go to execs but 10% benefits back the FOSS users around the world, figuratively speaking.