On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:10:49PM -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 02:34, Jesse Keating wrote: > > lordy I hate release time... brings out the worst in everybody. > > But this is situation is different from past releases. The people > complaining here and now have paid $60 for priority access to the ISOs > seven days before general release. For the vast majority of users, they didn't. They paid for priority access to ISOs in general. Red Hat made an *additional* offer of getting it up to 7 days early. I don't believe they claimed that your download would complete on April 1st and I'm too lazy to read up on their offer letter. > clearly intended to cash in on this monopoly sourcing scheme. If they > fail to provide enough bandwidth to reasonably satisfy the hyper demand > spike they themselves created, Red Hat could face severe legal > sanctions. Let it be known that Red Hat added bandwidth on Monday night to accomodate the increased demand. Either they responded extremely quickly or it was already scheduled and their ISP got it to them a day late. I have heard of no complaints today. In either case, Red Hat did the right thing even if they were a day late. I'm certainly not going to file a legal complaint. If you want, that's your right, but I hope they laugh you out of the place. > Anyone who believes they have cause to file a formal complaint with the > U.S. Federal Trade Commission may do so at > https://rn.ftc.gov/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01 Gimme a friggin' break! -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program
