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We have a software marketplace for items under a GNU license. # apt-get install package

I would say you will fail most spectacularly, but it seems to work for RedHat Enterprise Linux

You would have a point if # apt-get required registering a credit card number. Last I checked, it does not. True, apt is a pedantically-speaking economic marketplace: a true free market. It is a free market based on ideas, usage, and popularity. It is not a market based on directly moving funds to the software creators.

GNU encourages software creators to sell their software for as much money as they can make while using their license. What I am playing around with as a thought experiment is a method to create a market that trades the scarcity of a software writer's creativity for money.

And yes, the attempt would probably fail spectacularly. Anyone who wants to attempt to execute on my idea is free to do so. Ideas are cheap. Execution is expensive.

With RHEL you are paying for support, not software.

Both, really. Support is included in the price, but the subscription fees for Ceph, Openshift etc are not exactly gratis.

The SRPMS are typically public so you can compile them yourself, but official binaries are only available through RHEL subscription channels.

RedHat Enterprise Linux is targeted at companies that pay for support and trainings.

I bet RedHat gets nothing from home users.

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