At my university, many of the departments pay for RHEL, Suse and Solaris. Our school has a campus contract for RHEL and Solaris. I personally prefer the community supported distros. I make money with Linux, maybe RHEL just need to to evolve a little.
Chris... On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:55 AM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > Which raises the question, how do you make money on it? When is the > last time anyone here paid for a license to use a desktop Linux > distro? Well, I guess there's the SLED folks. Redhat aficionados tend > to use Fedora or CentOS from Cheapbytes on the desktop. Everyone else > uses Ubuntu or some other Debian based distro. > > Perhaps the OS must be a loss leader for services and proprietary s/w > packages? > > Or is it supposed to be OEM deals ala Xandros on the EEE PC? > > -- John. > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose
