On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:19, Tom Georgoulias wrote: > Karasik, Vitaly wrote: > > > My question was: may I buy one RH AS box, install 10 machines, and > > use RPM with updates for installation on all ten servers? > > Like I said before: No. You need a RHN service subscription for each > server running the software. If you buy one service subscription and > use across multiple servers, you are in clear violation of the license > agreement as stated in the URL you provided. > > You get what you pay for. If these servers are important enough to run > RHEL, then paying for RHEL shouldn't be a show stopper.
Come on, be realistic here. I used to run Red Hat Linux at work (I'd
still be running it, but I'm not working), and we purchased the boxed
sets for every release. This was All Well and Good. Then came up2date
with a reasonable price structure, we quickly signed on to that to get
priority access to updates. This is all well and good.
Now, since I ran Red Hat Linux at work, I also ran it at home, both on
my "desktop", and on a couple of home "servers". I don't mind updating
my desktop every 12 months, heck, I update it every 3 or so anyway, no
big deal. My servers, on the other hand, I don't touch for a couple of
years at a time, except for maybe a few security updates. I certainly
don't go changing the services on them once a year. I don't have the
option of running Red Hat Linux on such machines if I expect to keep
them reasonably secure anymore; I must run Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Except, of course, that I can't get it, and even if I could, it doesn't
look like "basic" RHN subscriptions for it are available anymore.
Greg
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