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Surely that depends on the license though? It would be possible to license open-source windows in such a way that corporations and OEMs couldn't distribute it without paying a license fee.

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Such a license would not be an open-source license.

What? Surely this falls under the free-as-in-beer vs free-as-in-speech distinction? What about RHEL? -- that operates on a paid open-source model.

And there's multiple free version of RH that are basically identical other than the branding and support.

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