Last time I used Redhat (admittedly quite some time ago), individual and non-commercial users could register one computer for up2date for free; it was only corporate users who had to pay for it.
Also, I believe that the software for up2date and the corresponding server are free. If so, there's nothing stopping a group of users from making a free Redhat mirror with a modified version of up2date that points at that mirror. Well, nothing except the fact that users who think that way tend to be the same users that switch to Mandrake or Debian or Gentoo or whatever after Redhat has served as their introduction to linux. And I've heard third-hand that apt-get works very well on conectiva and on PLD, so making it work on Redhat (or Mandrake) shouldn't be all that hard. Meanwhile, FACORAT Fabrice wrote: > Le mer 23/07/2003 � 10:15, Andi Payn a �crit : > > And PLF is an insidious French plot > > to subvert good honest American laws that are meant to take the rights > > from citizens of all countries and put them safely where they belong, in > > the hands of American media/technology conglomerates like CBS, NBC, Fox, > > Virgin, etc. > > virgin is english And CBS is Japanese, and Fox is Australian, and so forth. That's the point. In fact, off the top of my head, other than Turner, AOL/Time/Warner, and Disney, nothing in the American media is American. And Levi Ramsey wrote: > I imagine that the tripping of Lance Armstrong on the Luz-Ardiden was > part of that nefarious PLF plot.... ;o No, that was an RH9/CIA agent; Lance Armstrong himself is a PLF plot. He was built and packaged at the secret PLF laboratories under the squash courts at CNRS Service d'A�ronomie by a slave army of penguins and north Africans, under direction of the French Ministry of Inconveniencing George W. Bush (which secretly controls all governments in Europe except Spain and England). Any attempt to get Americans interested in a French event, sponsored almost entirely by European companies, in a sport that the average person enjoys participating in more than watching on TV, is obviously an anti-American plot.
