On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > this whole thing was really poorly done. > > rday
Yet another reason why my business, and myself are being pushed away by the whole "new" direction that RedHat has gone in. Sadly, after nearly ten years of "sticking" to RedHat, I'm going to have to divert my interests to another distribution that isn't going to follow in the footsteps of the larger looming monsters such as Microsoft and IBM. Bouncing versions like this, especially after pushing the version 8.1 idea for so long, is more than poorly done - it's as though the principle behind the versioning scheme has been thrown out of the window altogether without thinking of the long term effects on the people that have come to depend on them - and in thinking that users/sellers of systems with 7.2/7.3 versions are going to be literally out on the streets with this version change, they're making for some really bad business karma. I fear that RedHat, IF this move goes through, which I'm sure it is now, is going to cause quite a ripple throughout the overall RedHat community; and if the entire ploy is aimed at "Big Business" and commercial services, they're certainly going to find out that some folks are going to opt for a different distribution instead of fighting the "version is now outdated" trap. IMHO this is - but I'm not going to chuck more money down the drain for a distro I've started to not like or trust. And it really sucks that after all these years, I'm starting to "not trust" RedHat. -- Tue Mar 25 08:20:00 EST 2003 08:20:00 up 3 days, 19:07, 4 users, load average: 0.06, 0.16, 0.15 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time. -- Norman Cousins -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
