but there are foss programs you have to buy and after you bought it you are free to do with it what you want.
Any examples? I’m just curious how they stay afloat after sharing the source code once someone buys it, forks it and releases the source.
Maybe ‘F’ in FOSS does not mean it is gratis (de jure), but it is in fact gratis (de facto) for the majority of FOSS?
RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) would be an example.
I am sure there are more but I am not well versed enough. There is also Ardour but I think that is more if you want a binary and build the software from source.
Any examples? I’m just curious how they stay afloat after sharing the source code once someone buys it, forks it and releases the source.
Maybe ‘F’ in FOSS does not mean it is gratis (de jure), but it is in fact gratis (de facto) for the majority of FOSS?
RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) would be an example. I am sure there are more but I am not well versed enough. There is also Ardour but I think that is more if you want a binary and build the software from source.
but everyone just used centos instead. was that a failure of the commercial foss idea?