Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 19, 2004 03:06 AM
This isn't so much a review, as a whine that there is no super-cheap server software sold by Red Hat.
What part of "Professional Workstation" did you interpret to mean "Professinal Server"? As "workstation" software, server components have NO place.
As far as support goes, my biggest complaint with Red Hat is the lack of per-incident support. Nice as per-machine, annual subscriptions is for THEM, I don't need it.
Solution? Buy one copy and install it on ALL your machines, just don't set them up to use RHN. I've re-read their agreement posted online, including the Tradmark documents and don't see any issues with this at all. They are getting per-machine fees on the SERVICE, not the support. If you don't need their service, you're cool.
(If I'm wrong, someone point me to a link showing where and how. The amendments to the RHEL agreements specifically allow you do copy anything. The only restrictions are on the GRAPHICS files, and those restrictions pertain to external distribution or selling the software. This is clarified in the linked Trademark documents.)
Finally, if you think this will turn off a lot of customers, then make them YOUR customers -- provide support for Whitebox or even RHEL that people don't register with Red Hat!
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 19, 2004 03:06 AMWhat part of "Professional Workstation" did you interpret to mean "Professinal Server"? As "workstation" software, server components have NO place.
As far as support goes, my biggest complaint with Red Hat is the lack of per-incident support. Nice as per-machine, annual subscriptions is for THEM, I don't need it.
Solution? Buy one copy and install it on ALL your machines, just don't set them up to use RHN. I've re-read their agreement posted online, including the Tradmark documents and don't see any issues with this at all. They are getting per-machine fees on the SERVICE, not the support. If you don't need their service, you're cool.
(If I'm wrong, someone point me to a link showing where and how. The amendments to the RHEL agreements specifically allow you do copy anything. The only restrictions are on the GRAPHICS files, and those restrictions pertain to external distribution or selling the software. This is clarified in the linked Trademark documents.)
Finally, if you think this will turn off a lot of customers, then make them YOUR customers -- provide support for Whitebox or even RHEL that people don't register with Red Hat!
That sound you here is opportunity knocking.
-chill
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