On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 11:49, Jeremy Hogan wrote: > > > > Should I, as a (home) sysadmin, have read anything and everything I > > could possibly get on the subject of RHL? Perhaps... if I had > > nothing else to do with my time. I can't even read every message > > here. Would it have been nice for RH to have included a note as > > to their intentions in their regularly-published email updates that > > all "free" RHN users get? Yeah, that would have been nice. > > We sent out more than one RHN notice, announced it on our web site, in > free newsletters, had special promotions and talked about it in press > releases. Journalists wrote articles alternately flaming our lack of > vision or praising us for it. It's been the topic of Slashdot flames and > mailing list threads alike. The word was as out as we could make it. I got it so many times in so many ways I was sick of hearing about it. Anyone who didn't know when RHL-9 was going EOL and/or didn't know what their options were must've been living under a rock. I think it's also important to note that its not like these RHL-9 systems will suddenly explode on May 1st. They'll still keep trucking along... if security vulnerabilities are announced, the same people who never heard of RHL-9's EOL or their upgrade paths will probably be so oblivious they'll never hear about the vulnerabilities either... and like they say, ignorance is bliss :-) And I still have to wonder what any of this has to do with Fedora :-/ Ben -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/ascii / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
