> Anyway, when a company wants to run a copy of RHEL, they are likely to > also want the support & quality assurance that comes with the real > McCoy; they are accordingly willing to pay. And the advantage of > GPL'ed software in this case is the openness, transparency, and > (usually) stability of Linux. Also, with Linux there is no vendor > lock-in and mandatory upgrade treadmill. Those qualitites are also > worth paying for, if you are a serious company.
That pretty much sums up RH's business model ;-)
