> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Praveen A <pravi.a@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Irfan, >> > > >> So what happens if others give it for free? Then why would some one buy >> from you? >> >> For example Red Hat fixes some price for its Enterprise version. Oracle >> takes the same and sell it for half the price. CentOS give it for free of >> cost. So why would someone want to pay money to Red Hat? >> >> - Praveen >> >> Disclaimer: I work with Red Hat, opinions expressed here are mine >> >> On Mar 29, 2010 12:11 AM, "irfan naseef" <irfannaseefp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> adding to Praveen's comment :; Open source doesn't mean that it should >> be free of cost..It means only the source should be available to the users. >> You can fix price for your software . >> >> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Praveen A <pravi.a@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > Think about another ex... >> -- >> !rF@n >> >> > > praveen , I think as per GPL , my programs cannot be used by others for commercial purposes without my knowledge . So ,as u said , what redhat is giving cannot be commercially used by Oracle or whatever. . { Correct me if this concept is wrong } !rF@n