Excellent point... Would RedHat have dropped RedHat Linux in favor of Fedora if say 70% of the users had paid the $60/per year support fee and/or even purchased it? I think not... Marcus O. On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 10:19, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 03:50 11/17/2003, you wrote: > >My main concern is security updates and stability, and of course upgrading 1-2 > >times a year is possible but not desirable. I have been looking at Suse, > >Debian > >and Slackware aswell but it seems like waste to change distro when we have RHL > >competence in our company. But we do not like to get jailed into Redhat's > >commersial > >train.... > > Just saw this other message. > > Let me get this straight: you have 10,000 users as per your other post, > your main concern is security and stability, and upgrading too often is not > desirable. Sounds like a perfect match for ANY enterprise offering, > including RHEL. Yet you "do not like to get jailed into Red Hat's > commercial train"??? > > Unless you are providing service to those 10K people for free, then you are > making money off your server (which is likely not a $10 computer that you > found in a cereal box). Given that assumption (please correct me if I am > wrong), then you want to make money yourself but you don't want to pay Red > Hat, which has provided you with an operating system and all your server > platforms for the last four years or so. For some reason, _you_ are allowed > to run a business but _they_ are "jailing" you. Why, those thieves! > > I do hope I'm wrong, and that you are not the freeloading, cheap, > give-me-everything-for-free-so-I-can-get-rich-on-your-sweat type of person > this message sounds like. But it does sound that way, so I'll make the > recommendation I would have made anyway: pay the $350/year for RHEL-ES. It > seems to be _the_ ideal product for you. > > >I guess i'm looking for some advices from people in the same situation. > > I'm done giving advice to you, sir. I put many hours into trying to help > people just as others help me, but I believe we all have a moral obligation > to support our community by helping each other when we use (or if > appropriate, pay for) Linux products and services. It appears from your > message that you do not share my views; while that is your right, I find it > distasteful. >
