On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 17:35, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 03:51:22PM -0500, Shawn wrote: > > 2) Price. Don't charge me for support if I don't want it, if I just want > > security updates for the next year, then fine, let me do that. Don't > > force me to pay for support ahead of time. > > That's pretty much what you get with the basic download price ($180 for > EW, $349 for ES). > > What people are doing the most bitching and moaning about is the fact > that they want Red Hat to support the product for more than a 1 year. > That costs money and they simply don't want to pay it. That's their > right. They can either use the free version and get free updates for a > year (or buy a boxed set and pay $60RHN per year) or they can pay a > higher cost and get a longer EOL. You can't get Red Hat to support old > products for a longer time. That's a sure way to continue to lose money > and eventually go under like the vast majority of their competitors. Well, I suppose when you look at it from an M$ point of view. I can pay $200 for a copy of Windows and still get updates for it for the next 3-5 years. Instead with RedHat I'll have to pay $179 a year for the next 3-5 years. Now the best deal IMO, is obviously the Personal one, where it's $60 a year plus free upgrades. That comes out a little cheaper than M$ and certainly better to me in the long run :) -- Shawn <drevil@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.warpcore.org/
