On Tuesday 01 October 2002 10:52 am, you wrote: > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Lee wrote: > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: Red Hat Linux 8.0 now available on Red Hat Network > > Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 06:45:31 -0400 > > From: Red Hat Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Red Hat Linux 8.0 is now available. Get priority access to the Red Hat > > Linux 8.0 upgrade by subscribing to Red Hat Network Basic service for > > just > > $60 USD annually. Get it now: > > > > https://rhn.redhat.com/network/sales/purchase.pxt > > > > What does $60 a year get you? > > > > Snip > > > > Got this piece of bloat from RH today. It does raise a couple of > > questions though. 1) In what part of their anatomy does RH carry their > > brains around in and 2) does Bill Gates secretly own RH. > > > > Why would RH think that Open source people would pay them $60/yr to stay > > on their upgrade download list. Gates planned the same thing for XP and > > it blew up in his face. And his customers only had one choice either M$ > > or M$. With RH trying the gates thing I guess there'll be a lot of spill > > over business to Mandrake and SuSE. > > Because people working in a data center rarely have the time to be > fighting for space on anonymous ftp servers just to keep their systems up > to date. If you've got 250 Redhat based servers, $60 is pocket change to > keep them all up to date in a timely fashion. No one, is forcing you to > pay $60 to get RH-8. You can certainly fighting for a place on all the > anon ftp servers that will almost certainly be full for the first week or > so. Redhat is targetting the business world, they've made that quite > clear. You are not their target audience.
Ahh, but I am. From the write ups I've read RH8 is supposed to be designed for the desktops of the business community, secretaries and such. Apparently, decided that server sales will follow a good desktop. Obviously, Ransome Love doesn't work there. Lee _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
