On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:15:10PM -0400, Robert G. Brown alleged: > On 23 Oct 2003, seth vidal wrote: > > > > $2500 USD for RH Proxy server (basically an up2date server, bleeccch) > > > $25/installation of Workstation when in quantities over 100 > > > $150/installation of RHES > > > $1500/installation of RHAS > > > > eek $25/workstation? What about beowulf nodes - do they count as > > workstations? > > > > > Purchasing the proxy is a requirement to get the .edu (.ca up here) > > > pricing. I asked about paying a large annual fee for the whole > > > university to get unlimited WS installs with a fee for ES/AS installs, > > > but they're standing FIRM. > > > > bizarro. > > Bizarro and Evil. This is sheer madness. It is also what I think many > people have feared concerning Red Hat and the commercialization of > Linux. Linux takes the long slow road from "nothing" up to a world > class operating system written by volunteers, and as soon as it is just > barely "arriving" at a state where it might challenge Windows' dominance > on the desktop they dream up these prices that are absurd even relative > to Windows. These prices make me very, very angry. [...snip lots of well-said rant that I agree with...] Our only solution is to take up Fedora and do two things: continue updates past 1 year, and build it for all arches. That leaves one question, when do we start?