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And the good thing is that companies are free to do that.

Take Google, for example. They don't pay Red Hat because they have the code and they have amazingly smart kernel developers. But that's (surprisingly) still good for Red Hat, since Red Hat benefits from the contributions to the kernel that Google makes. It's good for all users of Linux.



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