> But that makes it a mine in a field if you are not knowledgable enough.
That seems like looking for a problem where one does not exist to be honest.
The peer comment regarding RedHat is spot on. Yes you can purchase a Linux distro from RedHat and pay lots of money.
That doesn't mean anyone will argue with a straight face that you can't run Linux for free!
It's the exact same scenario with Java. You could pay Oracle for a Oracle JDK if for some reason you reall want to, but approximately nobody does that.
That seems like looking for a problem where one does not exist to be honest.
The peer comment regarding RedHat is spot on. Yes you can purchase a Linux distro from RedHat and pay lots of money.
That doesn't mean anyone will argue with a straight face that you can't run Linux for free!
It's the exact same scenario with Java. You could pay Oracle for a Oracle JDK if for some reason you reall want to, but approximately nobody does that.