<quote who="Martin">
> redhat are now charging for their "automated update service" it comes
> with priority ftp and you can update a gaggle of servers as one... the
> individual rpms will still make it onto ftp sites everywhere, but the
> automation, support and QOS are what RH are now charging for...
There's some valuable cluestickage in reading Dan Veillard's comments in the
Slashdot article. He's had scripts and tools to do this for ages, but they
weren't taken up as readily as he thought they would.
Funnily enough, he's now employed by Red Hat for RHN stuff (and to do
kickarse XML work as well). People too dumb to take what they are given will
eventually pay.
> i think the only OS that can sit there and say "fixed that last year",
> "fixed that 3 years ago", "never included that in the install because we
> knew it had security flaws" time after time is OpenBSD... ;)
Ah yes. "Fixed that 3 years ago... Oh, we didn't tell you?" However much I
try to doubt it, there is a community ethic that goes hand-in-hand with the
license. :)
- Jeff
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