John Rumm wrote:

On 16/03/2020 03:24, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 16/03/2020 01:19, John Rumm wrote:

Is Linux free or do you have to buy it?

Can be either. You can get paid for supported versions and free
equivalents. Most home users would opt for a non paid one. Larger
corporates will often go for the paid versions because they have far
more proactive support and patch management (and the cost of the
license is only a small part of TCO in the bigger picture).

Linux is always free. You may elect to pay for a support contract, however.

A semantic argument. You want RHEL or similar, you pay for it.

If you want RHEL and no support contract you get Centos for free. The
only things you don't get are paid-for services of one kind or another.


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Roger Hayter