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> Yeah, it sucks that RH doesn't want to make life easy for rebuilders. But ultimately building your entire business model on copying the work of some other com
by izacus 3y ago
> Yeah, it sucks that RH doesn't want to make life easy for rebuilders. But ultimately building your entire business model on copying the work of some other company verbatim is not a great idea.
It's an amazing idea - copying RH meant no work had to be put into actually supporting the Linux community and keeping all the profits. Massive margins were made.
It's just that the angry HNers think that RH should continue to just give things away to repackagers for free and let them profiteer off their work.
- AlotOfReading 3y agoThe implication here is that people were getting rich off RH's hard work, but who else is rich in the Linux community? The only people making serious money that I can see are RH themselves, maybe Google if you want to count Android. They're earning $3.4B a year in revenue, compared to $140M for Canonical. Everyone else is scrounging around between the couch cushions for spare change by comparison. RH deserves kudos for being the biggest corporate OSS contributor (by far), but I'm just not buying this argument at poor RH can't sustain themselves against freeloading competitors when they seem to be the only ones making serious money.
- tm-guimaraes 3y agoThey were very profitable before IBM (now i dunno if IBMs splits the accounting) so poor Redhat doesn’t make sense.