eli5: How do Open Source/Linux companies make money?

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Maybe more specifically, how can I use Ubuntu “for free”, how can Ubuntu afford to just offer up the OS for nothing? Is it really just all donations from nice people?

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Red Hat sells training certification and support contracts.  I am not aware that there is such a thing as SuSE or Ubuntu certified professionals, so these two may have most of the revenue from support contracts.

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