Hello, On 2021-02-19 00:49, Aaron Puchert wrote:
Am 18.02.21 um 07:42 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
On 2/18/21 6:49 AM, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
No, because you don't pay for SLE as product, but for support and maintenance.
Actually, you do as large amounts of open source code is developed by paid developers, for example for the Linux kernel
That's where most of the money ends up, but Thorsten is probably right that most SUSE customers have more the support and maintenance in mind when they pay you.
All of them are right (otherwise things won't work for a longer time): Customers pay SUSE for support and maintenance and SUSE's paid kernel developers provide that for the kernel and other SUSE people provide that for other components. In particular customers with specific hardware in their data center and specific software requirements for their special environments that no free software volunteer would ever have at home can pay someone who can provide support and maintenance for their specific needs. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 - 90409 Nuernberg - Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nuernberg) GF: Felix Imendoerffer