Weird... I sent this earlier but it didn't come through. Anyways:

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From: Mitchell Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 18:36:38 -0400
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 7.3 to 8.0

On 10/10/02 6:50 AM, "Julian Morcinek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Within the last six weeks, I bought and installed Redhat 7.3. Lo and
> behold, Redhat have released a major version change to 8.0.
> 
> 1. They never told me at the time.
> 2. They haven't offered me a FREE upgrade path
> 3. This isn't standard or good business practice.
> 
> If they don't offer me the free upgrade, I want my money back.
> 
> Am I being unreasonable?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Julian Morcinek
> 

At the risk of starting a flame war (this is a sensitive list isn't guys?) I
would like to throw my two cents in and say yes.

You did not buy Red Hat. You bought the convenience of a pre cut CD and
maybe some hard copy documentation shipped to your door. You could have
downloaded either for free of their website at any point.

Check this out for some context:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

My 2cents.

Mitchell

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