On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:14:05 -0800, you wrote: >Then the trick would be to find freely downloadable RHEL SRPMS. No doubt RH knows >this and will try to lock down the RHEL availability which is totally within their >rights.
Red Hat actually provides the SRPMS on their ftp site. However one of the reasons for using Red Hat as opposed to something like Gentoo is because I don't want to wait for my machine to try and compile an entire distribution. >Most of the whining I am hearing would become mute if nobody had to pay a dime. >However, RH needs to make a profit and they won't do that by being magnanimous. Most of us are not objecting to Red Hat making money, and in the past when I could afford to I have both personally bought Red Hat as well as had it purchased for the servers I was administering. The complaining is that in essence Red Hat is dropping their affordable line of Linux (the stuff everyone has been using up to 7.3) and offering either the Enterprise versions (at in most cases significantly higher cost) or what amounts to an experimental version of Linux which is inappropriate for any sort of business or home use due to its rapidly changing nature and lack of long term errata support (the 8.0 and 9 line). How would you feel if you had gone to your boss or clients and worked hard to convince them to move to Linux, in part because it is only $150 a machine, only to now discover that the prices start at $300 and rapidly go up and are now in many cases similar to the price of MS Windows? To put it bluntly Red Hat has burned a lot of people with this move, both people on this list who are complaining and people elsewhere. -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
