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Bullshit.

Red Hat is a business. FreeBSD is a volunteer/community project.

FreeBSD is a volunteer/community project that offers more business-friendly licensing than gNewSense, which is also a volunteer/community project. It is not, however, a business like Red Hat.

Red Hat development gets all that funding because Red Hat is a business. FreeBSD relies more on volunteer time because it is not a business.

Fedora is a "community" project of Red Hat. FreeBSD is a community project of, well, a community. Red Hat funds Fedora (astroturf project) as its testing ground for RHEL (commercial project), while FreeBSD is just a community project.

What part of this do you not understand?



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