Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 04, 2003 02:26 AM
Almost seems like an MS tactic, "Sorry we don't make enough off of this, so all of you can just f@$k off".
Surely Microsoft's tactics almost always involve making money from stuff and locking the users in so that they can't "f@$k off", or at least not in any practical way.
I'll accept that I haven't really sent lots of money Red Hat's way (having bought a cheap retail edition a few years ago and then got some CD-Rs about a year or so ago). The Red Hat Network stuff is pretty decent, but if the future involves Fedora with various apt/yum packaging systems, I can live with that. I would have considered paying for a RHN subscription, especially if they'd sent out CD updates, but there's no way I'm upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise.
Otherwise, there's always the possibility of migrating to another distribution. When such advantages exist with one's chosen platform, why squander them?
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 04, 2003 02:26 AMAlmost seems like an MS tactic, "Sorry we don't make enough off of this, so all of you can just f@$k off".
Surely Microsoft's tactics almost always involve making money from stuff and locking the users in so that they can't "f@$k off", or at least not in any practical way.
I'll accept that I haven't really sent lots of money Red Hat's way (having bought a cheap retail edition a few years ago and then got some CD-Rs about a year or so ago). The Red Hat Network stuff is pretty decent, but if the future involves Fedora with various apt/yum packaging systems, I can live with that. I would have considered paying for a RHN subscription, especially if they'd sent out CD updates, but there's no way I'm upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise.
Otherwise, there's always the possibility of migrating to another distribution. When such advantages exist with one's chosen platform, why squander them?
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