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Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source by aquaticsunset on Monday January 14, 2019 @11:57AM (#18904398)
To say "everything" Red Hat ships being open source isn't quite true. There's a lot of proprietary code floating around, especially in the supporting infrastructure. When a product is put together, the upstream sources are bundled together and released - often behind the paywall.

Paul Cormier has it right - "We're an enterprise software company with an open source development model". Not an open source company.

However, you're correct. Red Hat's value prop is in top notch support.

Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source by SSLy on Monday January 14, 2019 @01:25PM (#18905083)
The only software that redhat "sells" that is not open source is: RHN and insights. Former would be pointless to open, the latter is virtually a service offering anyway.