[LinuxUsers] Redhat CEO - WOW!

[Chris Penn]

At my university, many of the departments pay for RHEL, Suse and
Solaris.  Our school has a campus contract for RHEL and Solaris.  I
personally prefer the community supported distros.  I make money with
Linux, maybe RHEL just need to to evolve a little.

Chris...

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:55 AM, John R. Hogerhuis <jhoger at pobox.com> wrote:
> Which raises the question, how do you make money on it? When is the
> last time anyone here paid for a license to use a desktop Linux
> distro? Well, I guess there's the SLED folks. Redhat aficionados tend
> to use Fedora or CentOS from Cheapbytes on the desktop. Everyone else
> uses Ubuntu or some other Debian based distro.
>
> Perhaps the OS must be a loss leader for services and proprietary s/w packages?
>
> Or is it supposed to be OEM deals ala Xandros on the EEE PC?
>
> -- John.
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