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| DATE | 2015-06-03 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] making money with open source - John Walker
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I have a question, maybe even advice.
Is there a practical value to a RH certification?
On 06/03/2015 03:02 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ruben (mrbrklyn-at-panix.com):
>
>> Just to first put this discussion in perspective, we are kicking this
>> around for education, and the conversation is not to be taken as a
>> competition.
>>
>> The FSF doesn't sell enough software to even feed RMS, let alone
>> sustain a cooperation or an economy.
> In the days of FSF shipping out tapes of GNU software, apparently it
> amounted to most of FSF's budget, though I don't have figures. Anyway,
> the point was to cite a prominent and famous counterexample to your
> claimed impossibility.
>
>> All the Free Software sales dried up, they don't even WANT to sell
>> software, and hence Red Hat, and SuSE pulled their consumer grade COTS
>> software off the market.
> Last I checked, all the software in RHEL was free software. (Two SRPMs
> have trademark-encumbered image files, but those aren't software.) All
> of the SRPMs that comprise the software in RHEL are freely available,
> and are all under free software licences, in their respective subtrees
> of ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/ . (The
> trademark-encumbered image-file SRPMs are also there.)
>
> I am not sure about OpenSUSE. SLES and SLED, if those still exist, had
> some proprietary components.
>
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