Why are some linux distros not free when linux is supposed to be free and open source?
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 at
00:28
Anywhere I can download Red Hat Linux for free?
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Filed under: Open Source
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"Free and open source" means that you are free to modify, change, and yes, sell, programs based on that source code. Red Hat can sell Linux all it wants, provided it offers the source code to the customers. Red Hat makes most of it’s money through paid support lines, not selling the product.
You can’t download Red Hat for free, since it contains proprietary components that Red Hat wants you to pay for (and you really wouldln’t have any use for them anyway.) You can, however, download a distro made up of all the free parts of Red Hat, and configured in much the same way. This distro is called "Fedora."
http://fedoraproject.org/
Because they include things which are free AND things which are not free.
Try http://www.centos.org/ for Red Hat Enterprise Linux with the non-redistributable stuff removed.
Linux is Free, to download and use but if you want a cd/dvd of it then you have to pay for it.. someone has gone to the trouble of downloading it and made the cd/dvd then there is postage
for the cheapest linux cd/dvd check out the link below