On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 19:09, Jeremy Dreese wrote: > > And undoubtedly, this is going to piss off a lot of people who were > > quite happily taking advantage of Red Hat Linux with 3 years of errata > > without paying a cent. We can't do that anymore. It's too expensive, > > we'd cease to exist. Fedora Core is the compromise. We spent a long time > > trying to make the most people happy, we listened to all the complaints > > (yes, even the most irrational ones), and we came up with the best > > option we could. > > I agree that people who expect to get software (and updates) from RedHat forever > and not pay anything have little room to complain. RedHat is a company that > needs to make money; otherwise, there won't even be a company. However, I do > believe that RedHat is neglecting a very important market by not focusing some > attention on edus. I understand that Fedora Core is perhaps an attempt to help > this group, and we'll have to wait and see if that addresses the edu needs. But > I know that there are some universities who are very willing to pay RedHat for > software/support/updates but simply can't afford the price "bar" that has been > set. Most companies have educational pricing because they understand the value I would love to meet them. All I ever dealt with promised money but just kept taking the downloads saying that 100.00, no 70.00, no 50.00, no 20.00 was too much. I felt like the Monty Python skit where you go in and nothing is for sale, just someone there to waste your time. -- Stephen John Smoogen smoogen@xxxxxxxx Los Alamos National Labrador CCN-5 Sched 5/40 PH: 4-0645 (note new #) Ta-03 SM-1498 MailStop B255 DP 10S Los Alamos, NM 87545 -- So shines a good deed in a weary world. = Willy Wonka --
