On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Stephen Smoogen wrote: > On 27 Aug 2003, Howard Owen wrote: > > >On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 05:27, William Hooper wrote: > > > >I think Red Hat should drop license fees for their WS product. The > >window of opportunity is open for Linux on the desktop, due to the > >maturation of the technology, Microsoft's gouging on licenses, and the > >lack of compelling new technology upon which they can piggyback new > > Sure and Red Hat can go belly up in 2 years because no-one is paying > them for all the work they do. I think people are saying they'd like a third option in between RHLP and RHEL WS, something where the desktop is long-lived (say, three years maintenance) but doesn't have bundled support. Right now, the closest there is to that option is to buy 1 SuSE Professional 8.2 box and deploy it on all desktops (which is actually only guaranteed 2 years maintenance AFAIK, and which sucks in lots of other ways ;-). Maybe shifting the licensing / "Red Hat getting paid" stuff server-side by selling those customers 100-client proxy servers (or some similar product) would make them happy and still get RHAT revenue.... Or maybe RHAT just can't afford right now to make a product suitable for all customers.... later, chris
