Linux Vets Unite Behind Ciq Rocky Linux S Founding Sponsor
Today, the first business model that comes to mind for Linux or open-source software is to offer paid business support. It wasn’t always that way. In Linux’s early days, companies such as Caldera, Red Hat, and SUSE still thought you could make money by selling Linux in a box to ordinary users. Before Red Hat figured this out, when it retired Red Hat Linux in favor of the commercial RHEL in 2003, Linuxcare had already emerged as the first important Linux support company in 1998....