Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux

Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by mattl on Monday July 23, 2018 @04:59PM (#17595938)

I don’t think a business would actually do that, if they purchased something they would likely not put it up on GitHub immediately, but I think the key to selling free software is customization. Red Hat makes a good deal of money from free software, but as you say, much of that is from support.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by jodrellblank on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @12:32AM (#17598131)

It's almost like 2.9 billion dollars of annual revenue incentivises RedHat to make worse software, to encourage people to buy support.

Hah, what am I saying, ignoring incentives like that is easy and commonplace, I'm sure they pay it no mind at all.

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