On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 04:56, Steve wrote: > On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Robert Canary wrote: > > > Okay I'll ask agin... > > > > Why is this subject comming up? There is > > obviously something I have missed....where is > > RedHat going? and why did you mention 9.0 > > specifically? > > RedHat have changed their operational model. > > RedHat 9.0 is mentioned especially as that is the last "RedHat supported" > product in the line of "freely downloadable supported redhat releases" > > Their "Free to download" product they moved to another department and > called it "Fedora" (actually, I think fedora was already running as a > project but redhat have now invested heavily in them - feel free to > correct this) > > Their "Next redhat release" they made available via purchase only and have > called this "RedHat Workstation" of which there are a number of different > flavors with varying pricing points. > > People get very agrivated over this and feel RedHat has betrayed them by > trying to work toward a more commercial focus and feel this is > justification to tell the world that they intend on moving to <insert > other distribution from the list of hundreds here> Actually, there are plenty of reasons why I'll be switching to SuSE or Debian, and the change in RH's business model is just one -- a major one, of course, but just one. I did enjoy Red Hat's customer service model to their non-corporate but paying customers over the years since I've been running it (I always purchased the shrinkwrapped version of their OS) and I'm sorry to see it go. > Someone should write a FAQ. > > -- > Steve. -- Slainte, Richard S. Crawford AIM: Buffalo2K / Y!: rscrawford / ICQ: 11640404 Howard Dean for America: http://www.deanforamerica.com http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com "It is only with our heart that we can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupery -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
