On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 18:29, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > While I agree some of the decisions Red Hat has made have been > necessary and even good (even if Red Hat has screwed up the > implementation and public relations aspects of at least some of them) > they are also apparently ignoring a lot of their existing and (at > least until now) loyal customers. This is crap. > I certainly can't recall messages on any of the Red Hat mailing lists > or any survey asking for Red Hat to price their Linux product at the > same price levels Microsoft charges, yet that is exactly what Red Hat > has done (and in at least 1 case when you extend the price over a 3 or > 4 year lifetime of a product Red Hat is actually more expensive than > Microsoft). More crap. > The base Red Hat product line (8.0, 9, whatever next) is no longer > suitable for business or the average home user. You cannot expect a > company or joe user to upgrade their operating system every year > (which is now necessary given the 12 month limit on bug/security > fixes). Even more crap. > To get a reasonable period of security fixes you have to move up to > the enterprise line of products, which starts at a minimum of twice > the price and has more restrictive licensing terms. Ditto. > So your average person at home now has a choice of Windows XP at $300 > or Red Hat Enterprise Workstation at $300 ($60 a year after the first > year for access to security fixes). Guess what, XP comes with full > multimedia capabilities including MP3 and DVD, as well as a full range > of software available for purchase including games, tax software, etc. > Which would you choose? And by the way, so far at least Microsoft > still offers free security fixes in the base price. This is a very long message that is the epitome of FUD. Let's leave this $#|t out of the redhat lists. -- Farewell neighbor. Thank you for giving us a safe place for so many years. Fred Rodgers - 1928-2003 -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
