On 18 Dec 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote:

> I agree, you can't pay 7.99$ fro the unofficial cd's and expect RH
> to provide any services.  They already provided the service of
> putting out the distribution ...
> 
> However, offering services for a fee for those that did not buy
> the official cd's should bring some more revenues.  It is up to RH
> to decide what is the proper price for those services.  Anyway
> they won't prevent the redistribution of their ftp version Linux.
> Thus might might as well grab the opportunity for more revenues.  

and as has already been suggested elsewhere, red hat made an
obvious mistake in discontinuing a $29 basic boxed set.  now
those who would have been happy to support red hat in paying
for an official boxed set are undoubtedly thinking hard about
shelling out $59(?), or just a couple of bucks to cheapbytes.

red hat blew it here.

rday

-- 
Robert P. J. Day
Eno River Technologies, Chapel Hill NC
Unix, Linux and Open Source corporate training



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