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Red Hat is more committed than ever to open source and the community that makes it a thriving, innovative, and ultimately revolutionary idea. Both Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are released under the GPL and the source code is publicly available on redhat.com at no cost.

Red Hat is also a commercial entity with a responsibility to meet shareholders' goals for sustained profitability. In fact, business stability is also a key requirement for enterprise customers when they make strategic choices about their long-term technology partners. Red Hat's business model balances our passion for open source with our responsibility to shareholders and customers.

Red Hat currently contributes to and hosts a number of free and open source software products, projects, standards bodies, foundations, and initiatives and will continue to do so in the future.