Distribution quotes of the week [LWN.net]

Distribution quotes of the week

Posted Sep 28, 2012 8:37 UTC (Fri) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: Distribution quotes of the week by DavidS
Parent article: Distribution quotes of the week

Ubuntu is not marketed as a company but as a community distribution.
At least Red Hat never tried to monetize Fedora.

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Distribution quotes of the week

Posted Sep 28, 2012 9:04 UTC (Fri) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (2 responses)

you have a short memory, RedHat did work to monitize it's home/personal/desktop version. They only created RHEL and abandoned that market to fedora after several years of not succeeding well enough.

Distribution quotes of the week

Posted Sep 28, 2012 9:54 UTC (Fri) by andresfreund (subscriber, #69562) [Link] (1 responses)

Fedora was created later than RHEL, so I don't really see your point.

Distribution quotes of the week

Posted Sep 28, 2012 18:59 UTC (Fri) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

saying 'at least redhat never tried to monetize fedora' implies that redhat is somehow 'more virtuous' because it never tried to make money off of it's non-datacenter version of Linux.

While it is true that they have never tried to make money from "fedora", the implication that they never tried to make money from home users who could download things for free is defiantly false.

If RedHat had succeeded at monetizing it's home users, the RHEL/Fedora split may never have happened.