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butthurt [soylentnews.org] writes:

Red Hat, Inc. [wikipedia.org] has announced [businesswire.com] that it is trialling a price reduction—to nothing—for its software, in an apparent effort to attract developers.

The Raleigh, North Carolina company is offering its Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, formerly priced at $99, to those who provide their details at http://developers.redhat.com/ [redhat.com]. It is also offering its JBoss Middleware [redhat.com] and other software at no charge.

When the submitter visited the site, the company was promoting an upcoming video stream [redhat.com] showing a "sneak peek of .NET on Red Hat Enterprise Linux."

The story was reported by The Register [theregister.co.uk] (via CloudFlare, archived copy here) [archive.is], SD Times [sdtimes.com], Network World [networkworld.com], BetaNews [betanews.com] and ZDNet [zdnet.com].

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• Microsoft Partners with Red Hat for Linux and .NET in the Cloud [soylentnews.org]
• Red Hat is Buying Ansible [soylentnews.org]
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