On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:58:48 -0500, Andrew W. Donoho <awd@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Oct 21, 2004, at 12:52, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > > Now, it so happens that I fully understand that you guys don't have all > > the time/resources/people/money you might like and that you're doing > > the > > best you can. I also respect what "the best you can" has produced so > > far.* > > > Folks, > > Let me go on the record of saying that with the old Redhat Network > support there was actually a money stream to support the community > channel. With the transition to RHEL and the higher annual expense Actually the amount of money from RHN at that point would probably only covered the bandwidth charges.. not the colo costs, and definately not the costs of developers/testers. The boxed sets were barely paying for themselves, and the people wanting the extra RHN were on the order of 1 in a hundred (and it was about 1 box sale for every 100 downloads). RH was making profitable money mostly from large support contracts but not at the rate that it could continue "losing" money on RHN/boxsets. -- Stephen J Smoogen. CSIRT/Linux System Administrator