On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 14:15, Florin Andrei wrote: > On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 19:01, seth vidal wrote: > > > > the Red Hat Linux line is now considered for "home users and hobbyists" > > according to the info on the webpage. > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux is for production/server/etc use. > > So why shouldn't devel of RHL be more influenced by the demands of the > > end user - the hobbyist - the more common OSS developer? > > Red Hat won't gain much revenue from the hobbyist user in RHL anyway - > > at least not through up2date/rhn. So why not include a third party > > updater? > > Duh. Because then people will start using that freeware gizmo on the > enterprise thing, and will stop paying big money for the Satellite or > whatever it's called... will they? It seems like the people who want satellite want it, not b/c they lack the technical skills to do something themselves but they want it b/c the want the support contract, etc, with red hat. -sv
