There's no doubt that this was deliberate on the part of Red Hat. But not everyone is jumping ship. The last I looked, Red Hat's subscriptions are way up, and their renewal rate is between 80%-90%. Also, while the instability and disavowal of support do scare off business use of Fedora Core, the willingness to accept the latest changes in existing packages, and to try new stuff is appealing to the geeks among us. This is a core (heh) constituency that Red Hat needs to keep on board to ensure their enterprise offering stays at a high level of quality and relevance. This also seems to be working. On Thu, 20 May 2004, Kelson Vibber wrote: > At 03:23 PM 5/20/2004, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > >Unstable release? > > > >I know a _bunch_ of people running FC1 on servers depending on FL to get > >patches out when RH stops. > > Blame Red Hat marketing. I think they're deathly afraid people will keep > using Fedora Core the same way they were using the free RHL. Hence, the > warnings about FC stability, in hopes that people will move to RHEL > instead. Of course, what's happened instead is a mass (or at least noisy) > exodus to SuSE and Debian, with a lot of people moving to Fedora Core > anyway and others moving to RHEL clones like cAos, Whitebox, etc. > > "It will eat your braaane!" > > > Kelson Vibber > SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net> > > > > -- > > fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list > > -- Howard Owen "Even if you are on the right EGBOK Consultants track, you'll get run over if you hbo@xxxxxxxxx +1-650-218-2216 just sit there." - Will Rogers -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
