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And how would you define "commercial operating system"? Is Android one or is it "Linux"?

• omeid2 4y ago
  No; and No. Anything that is not licensed as "Free Software" or "Open-Source software" is "Commercial Operating System".
  • frameset 4y ago
    How does Red Hat Enterprise Linux fit into that classification? It's both commercial and open source.
    • omeid2 4y ago
      That is not "Linux".
  • SSLy 4y ago
    Linux can be commercial, look at RHEL, SuSE, Ubuntu. The moniker you're looking for is proprietary.
    • omeid2 4y ago
      They're far more than Linux, in the sense that a product using Sqlite isn't "Sqlite".
  • mtrower 4y ago
    Commercial has to make money somehow, directly or indirectly. Plenty of software has been released gratis over the years under proprietary licenses.
• programmer_dude 4y ago
  Replace commercial with non open source.
• ccozan 4y ago
  A finer distinction would be "closed-source operating system". There is nothing wrong selling a Linux-based OS/distribution.