Posted by: WordBooty
on February 19, 2004 10:04 PM
Heres the deal, you aren't buying their "product" because it doesn't belong to them to sell. You are buying support, a guarantee that a company will be around to support your system.
If you don't want to pay, the stuff is still free, you do have options, such as:
1) Use CentOS, TaoLinux, or WhiteBox for free.
2) Buy RH for one year, by then CentOS/Tao/White should have proven themselves either keepers or dead. Use CentOS/Tao/White updates from then on for free.
3) Buy RH License as long as you need to run RH
It doesn't matter which you chose to do, that's the freedom that comes with using Open Source. Red Hat doesn't owe anyone anything, but they are still providing full on src.rpm's and going above and beyond fulfilling the requirements of the GPL.
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Re:It isn't about the money...but...
Posted by: WordBooty on February 19, 2004 10:04 PMIf you don't want to pay, the stuff is still free, you do have options, such as:
1) Use CentOS, TaoLinux, or WhiteBox for free.
2) Buy RH for one year, by then CentOS/Tao/White should have proven themselves either keepers or dead. Use CentOS/Tao/White updates from then on for free.
3) Buy RH License as long as you need to run RH
It doesn't matter which you chose to do, that's the freedom that comes with using Open Source. Red Hat doesn't owe anyone anything, but they are still providing full on src.rpm's and going above and beyond fulfilling the requirements of the GPL.
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