stability isn't a problem,
it's stable, that's why it's so popular in servers.
You can't pay for "Linux" because Linux isn't a single thing. You mean why not a commercial distribution? The Kernal is GPL so I don't know what the legality of that would be.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 6 Jul 2012, 22:57,
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The GPL on the kernel
doesn't stop Redhat selling RHEL.
There is nothing to stop you selling a distro or selling commercial software to run on top of linux. A number of companies do.
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LP, Fri 6 Jul 2012, 23:01,
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they sell the support package,
that's how that works as far as I know
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 6 Jul 2012, 23:04,
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nope
they sell RHEL - you can't download it for free.
Edit: not unless you count CentOS, which is RHEL with all the redhat stuff stripped out and doesn't have the infrastructure around it that RHEL does
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LP, Fri 6 Jul 2012, 23:14,
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RHEL
is the free Linux kernel with a few Red Hat proprietary tools on top and a fucking expensive support package.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 6 Jul 2012, 23:30,
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Linux makes a great calculator, don't get me wrong.
It's just lousy for everything else. It's like you said before about too many cooks.
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JamTallons, Fri 6 Jul 2012, 23:05,
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