Jeff you are mostly correct, but I want to make a slight (but IMHO important correction). What you pay for is not a licence or right to use but a "subscription", which consists of access to binaries (including updates and upgrades for the duration of your subscription), support, certification and open source assurance. or s/licence/subscription/ and I second your answer. Riaan On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Jeff Stoner wrote: > It's all Open Source. Redhat is only obligated to make the source code > available (whether that's through CVS, tarballs or SRPMs.) Purchasing a > license entitles you to get support from Redhat (via phone, web or > email) and allows you to download binary RPMs and get compiled updates > via up2date from their servers. > > Without a license, you have to build the software yourself or get RPMs > from some place like rpmfind.net, and support is pretty much limited to > mailing lists and message forums (where you may not get an answer.) > > > --Jeff > SME - UNIX > OpSource Inc. > > PGP Key ID 0x6CB364CA > > > > > > > I hate to bother you guys with dumb questions, but I'm > confused-- > > > > Looking at the components, it looks like this project is the > core of Red Hat Cluster Suite. I take it RHCS itself is not open, but > its "root" components are? How does RHCS compare to these open > projects? > > > > Thanks in advance. -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
