Red Hat grew on GPL licensed projects to become a $34 billion business. Canonical does the same except it’s Ubuntu not RHEL and charges more than Red Hat.

You really underestimate the value of support contracts.

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pessimizer a day ago | parent [-]

GPL is not MIT. If your software is GPL, you can sell it relicensed as MIT for income.

	▲	kccqzy a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Doesn’t matter. When companies pay for support contracts they don’t care whether the code is GPL or MIT. They care about the support they get.
	▲	lmz 17 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Red Hat is not relicensing the Linux kernel, or GCC (to name two examples).
	▲	jen20 a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You can only do this if you own the copyright for all contributions.