More on licensing... Maybe our FreeOS friends will answer, maybe the other Linux retailers will...
If I can duplicate a Linux CD (or install it on as many machines as I like) without restrictions, how do/can/dare the Linux OS vendors charge for their software.
* Red hat sells a version (I think 6.22 high availability) for $2000 that is steep. If I can duplicate Linux can I duplicate this one too? If so Can I (hypothetically of course) start a store that sells copies of this Red hat $2000 software for $1000?
* Also Caldera (I think its them) just released a 'Single Machine License' that says you need to have one caldera license per machine. How can they do that?
Anyone got answers?
PS: If you say that some components are not GPl hence the price for the box, can I remove the non-GPL (or more importantly non-'Free') components, and then duplicate and sell a slightly crippled box, in my Hypothetical store?
-Vaibhav
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