On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:13 am, Net Llama! wrote: > My $deity, its horrifying that Redhat actually wants to make a profit! > Such bastards. > > Sorry, but i don't see how this is a bad thing. Granted, i haven't seen > the actual email in question, but i suspect that ftp://updates.redhat.com > will remain freely accessible, and that anyone wanting automagic updates > would have to pay. Getting a service usually means paying for said > service. The fact that Redhat provided it gratis for this long should be > commended. > > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Shawn McMahon wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Well, well. My one and only Red Hat system is also my one and only > > Red Hat Network free subscription. > > > > RH just sent me an email stating that I have 7 days to fill out a survey > > to extend my "demo" account another 60 days. The implication in the > > email is that after that 60 days, there are no freebies any longer. > > > > Fortunately I have apt-rpm on there and don't use up2date to keep my > > system updated, but I wonder what affect all of the Red Hat systems that > > will suddenly no longer be getting security updates are going to have on > > the 'net? > >
As someone else said, there's always debian or (gasp, dare I say it) gentoo, where much more than what RH offers is available free to all takers. And yes, Virginia, the security anouncements are just as rel;iable as RH. RH is a business, and they can certainly do what they damn well please. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area Athlon-XP gentoo 1.4_rc2 kde 3.1 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
