[Gllug] Linux support options

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 03:53:51PM +0000, Richard wrote:
> Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> 
> >Richard wrote:
> >
> I'm willing to concede that could happen, but that will have to happen 
> when they feel they can trust Linux in some sense, which they're not yet 
> sure of.
> 
> >
> >It's a free market, they can charge whatever they like.  Quite why 
> >anyone pays for open source software in its own right is beyond me, 
> >though.
> 
> Quite. However, these guys want a warm, cuddly support contract to 
> "mitigate risk".

I agree! If you have some exec who doesn't understand computers that
well never mind linux / OSS who has several grand to spend why should
they push the risk / responsibility back to their door when it all goes
tits-up? Why not pay the several grand they have been told they can use
and then if it goes wrong they can deflect to the vendor. You can see
why they would want to do that rather than get sacked for a maverick
solution.

On a side note, can I just urge you not to use redhat's satellite. I
know redhat have done good stuff for linux, but they really dropped the
ball with this one. It's poor with no permissioning structure and an API
that shows how much of a mess the internals must be. Plus it's just a
gui that makes it inconvenient to update your kickstart files. This is
just IMHO!

Cheers,

Ben.

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