[Cumbria] RH in Give us your data and money shocker!

[Paul Broomfield]

Mmm well I have been an avid user of redhat for 6 years or so. While I
see the need for a company to make money, and if I just had one PC $60 a
year would be palatable, but I don't I have about 40 of them. The other
thing that annoys me at the moment is this 12month support thing. When
you have to upgrade that many machines it starts to look like a painting
the forth bridge scenario. Redhat advanced server is overkill to the
highest degree for my needs, and the price tag is astonishing. I have
PURCHASED the cds for every release from 7.0 because I wanted to support
redhat for giving me a product that is worth the money. While I don't
argue that Redhat has to make a profit I personally can't afford to pay
that kind of money or keep up with there upgrades. There are some
projects that act as RHN servers, mebee it would be an idea to club
together and have our own personal RHN server ( that still does not sort
out the upgrade cycle ). Hey ho. Well for my needs I am switching to
BSD!



>-----Original Message-----
>From: cumbria-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk 
>[mailto:cumbria-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Michael Saunders
>Sent: 03 March 2003 14:29
>To: cumbria@mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [Cumbria] RH in Give us your data and money shocker!
>
>
>On 3 Mar 2003, Ian Linwood wrote:
>
>> Still fond of RH?
>> 
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29542.html
>
>Stop trolling.
>
>"Getting Red Hat Network support for free just got harder. 
>With the impending rollout of Red Hat Advanced Workstation the 
>company has made another move to 'encourage' users to pay for 
>Red Hat Network support."
>
>Wow, a large company wants people to pay for its services! 
>What is so wrong with charging for something like this? The 
>distro is still freely downloadable, as are all updates and 
>errata packages. A solid and professional operating system is 
>still totally free. Red Hat are trying to make money out of 
>extra support services. What is wrong?
>
>It's always interesting to watch Red Hat bashers as they talk 
>about new Linux software. They fail to see that the recent 
>HUGE advances in GCC (turning it into a viable professional 
>tool and not just "that free compiler"), along with major work 
>on glibc, XFree86, the kernel and GNOME were all funded 
>heavily by Red Hat.
>
>All the other distros PUT TOGETHER don't contribute as much 
>money and manpower into developing Linux; if you dislike Red 
>Hat, go back to GCC 2.7.2, XFree86 3.3.6 and kernel 2.0. No, I 
>don't agree with everything they do, but they still make their 
>distro and updates completely free to download, and are doing 
>an enormous amount of work on making Linux even better.
>
>Red Hat and IBM are the only Linux companies with strong 
>market traction at the moment -- you wouldn't want them to die.
>
>Mike
>
>-- 
>Michael Saunders
>www.aster.fsnet.co.uk
>
>
>
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