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[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes but people will pay redhat Linux to use a distro with support. Also almost the entire US internet server infrastructure runs on Linux.

So yeah a company can provide an open source product with commercial support

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

people will pay redhat Linux to use a distro with support

never seen this happen in my 20 years career

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Bizarre, I guess their business has been running on hopes and dreams instead of money for the past 30 years lol.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

that was my assumption