Am confused so thought of asking a question.According to this Red Hat Becomes Open Sources First $1 Billion Baby, it is opensourced so my question is:Where can I download the Opensource version? All web links provided point to RHEL; it is commercial isn't it? Am I missing something?
Is Red Hat Linux licensed
rhel;free software;licenses;open source
What you are missing are two components: the service/support and the fact that they (Red Hat) provide ready (binary) packages.CentOS does as well and they strive to be binary compatible, down to every single last bug. As far as I know only a few aspects of CentOS differ from the respective RHEL release, mostly because of copyright and/or trademark issues. CentOS compiles the sources and at least publicly Redhat even like (not just acknowledge) the fact. Red Hat still makes big business providing the support and service around their distro.Also read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_derivatives