From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 10/13/2025 5:57 AM, Chris Townley wrote:   
   > On 13/10/2025 02:07, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >> Seeing a good long term business for selling proprietary Unix   
   >> for x86-64 require a very good imagination.   
   >   
   > Red Hat do well out of it, although not quite propriety, not quite open   
   > source...   
      
   Redhat do (or at least did) very well by selling support for   
   a bundle of open source software. Almost everything in RHEL is   
   open source and most of it is not written or maintained by Redhat.   
      
   Different business model.   
      
   But despite RHEL becoming the de facto standard for   
   enterprise Linux then Redhat never made as much money as   
   Sun did back in the late 90's and very early 00's.   
      
   The open source nature of the code base had huge   
   advantages for Redhat:   
   * they got it for free   
   * compatibility with other Linux distros   
   but also with a downside:   
   * it is possible to create RHEL clones   
      
   That means wide usage but also cap on the price tag.   
      
   Arne   
      
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