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On the future of free long term support for Linux distributions
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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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I believe that the main problem is how companies work. If I say finance that I want to donate to an open source project half of what we are paying for the licenses of the alternative rubbish commercial product we are using now, they will simply say no. No discussion at all. We always need to find commercial entities that work via licensing to support open source tools. This is also a reason of the success of red hat compared to debian. Companies don't pay debian, I couldn't even if I would like, because they don't offer a package of enterprise licenses... That is the only option finance understand
It is crazy and a pity...
Agreed, but there's more to it than just "we need to pay for support contract." There's also "we want a contract that indemnifies us against a FOSS reciprocal license claim against the product we sell." That is something that really contributed to RHEL's dominant position.