my pclinuxos is based on mandrake and mandrake came from red hat.
does that make me a china made communist?
and how are companies making money if this is communism?
No. What I'm saying here is that Red Hat puts out the RHEL source under the GPL (and at no cost). If I were building a new distro, I could dl the source RPMs from Red Hat free and build a CD or DVD image to use the software. FermiLab and WhiteBox do this--with the explicit goal of being 100% RHEL compatible.
Yes. Mandrake did come from Red Hat. And no, that doesn't make you a ChiComm. Unfortunately, that's what GE's painting us as.
How companies are making $$--truth be told, I don't know. It is my understanding though that as long as GPLed copies exist freely to the public, it's c
My guess is that there's enough localizations and tweaking going on to sufficiently distinguish it from the paid versions of RHEL--if someone just dl'd Red Hat sources and built up a CD and then made millions on it, I really don't think Red Hat would put up with it too well.