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No; and No. Anything that is not licensed as "Free Software" or "Open-Source software" is "Commercial Operating System".
by omeid2 4y ago
No; and No.
Anything that is not licensed as "Free Software" or "Open-Source software" is "Commercial Operating System".
- frameset 4y agoHow does Red Hat Enterprise Linux fit into that classification? It's both commercial and open source.
- omeid2 4y agoThat is not "Linux".
- SSLy 4y agoLinux can be commercial, look at RHEL, SuSE, Ubuntu. The moniker you're looking for is proprietary.
- omeid2 4y agoThey're far more than Linux, in the sense that a product using Sqlite isn't "Sqlite".
- mtrower 4y agoCommercial has to make money somehow, directly or indirectly. Plenty of software has been released gratis over the years under proprietary licenses.