Chris Ricker said: > 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: First off, please watch quoting. I most certainly didn't say the following lines. >> >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. It is my understanding that keeping multiple Errata trees for a long period is the problem that making RHLP a short life cycle product is meant to solve. I imagine that many more dollars go into backporting patches than into answering phones. -- William Hooper
