On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 00:41 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 09:12 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > How do oyu make money on software that you give away free? > > > > I think this is a critical question that needs a workable answer. > > It already has several. Have you not read them? That question is > answered in many places on the internet. > > e.g. Support contracts: Company 'A' provides support and assistance for > a fee. > > And there's other service based schemes to make money from free Linux, > just the same as many companies make money off of the side-issues of > paid-for OSs. And that is exactly what Red Hat is doing. I was responding to the person who attaked RHEL for stealing the ideas from fedora. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>