Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 17:42 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)freenet.de> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 16:48 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
>>> Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)freenet.de> wrote:
>>>> I am glad they are around, but not more and not less.
>>> It is around becase RHEL is popular, and open source.
>> And non-free
> It /is/ free... you pay for support only.
Wrong. RHEL is opensource, but it is not free. You can't get RHEL
binaries anywhere.
You are confusing non-free and commercial. They are not the same.
Non-free is a well established term for proprietary software. FSF,
Debian and even RPMFusion is using that term as such.
RHEL is commercial but not, non-free. The complete source in the form of
SRPMs is available in the Red Hat public ftp server. The free
availability of binaries is never a requirement for any of the free and
open source licenses.
Rahul