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but you are still not entitled to anyone's source code unless you are a user of the program.

do you want to pay RH's contract and distribute their code for free? well, find someone to host a VPS that will receive petabytes of traffic each month then.

you will soon find out, it's really not that "free"

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

You are just substituting one for another. Find enough people to chime in a dollar to fund a VPS? Find enough people to form a high bandwidth bittorrent mesh?

Potato potato, good luck serving the global market with a bittorrent version of dnf update

Debian?

Doesn't distribute using bittorrent but they're pretty global and what they're doing seems to be working.

Their CDN bills are paid (or rather sponsored by) Fastly, and they have a mirror network hosted by universities and other third parties. No third party is going to donate resources to RHEL the way they might for Debian, though.

I'll add that those CDN bills are not at all insubstantial. But still peanuts compared to the actual development costs.

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