On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:33:10PM -0600, John Nichel wrote: > I find it funny (and sad at the same time) that the same people who just > a year ago would have been shouting Red Hat at the top of their lungs > had someone mentioned Microsoft, are so willing to 'jump ship' now. So > Red Hat is going to charge now...they're a business!!! The complaint is not that they're charging, it's that their new model doesn't give us the options and features WE need to sell RedHat. This isn't a lovefest or religion; it's a business. If you don't give me what I need to sell it, I'll have to leave. > I saw one email on here where someone complained that if you didn't > buy a version of WS which came with <insert app here> you couldn't > download the rpm from Red Hat, and that this wasn't right because RH > didn't make the software, just packaged it in a nice RPM. That was me, and you just did a nice <dirty> job of eliding my explanations and qualifications--especially the ones where I SAID that charging a *fair* amount for the RPMs _sans_ support would be OK--just to make your point. > Guess some people don't realize how nasty compiling from source > (not source RPM's mind you) can be. I know EXACTLY how nasty compiling from source can be; I was teaching Unix internals in 1981. (Where were you?) I'm still building from source; personally, I prefer the Apache Toolbox to separate RPMs. But that doesn't mean it's OK for me to force that on clients. -- Dave Ihnat ignatz@xxxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
