Re: Fedora Project: Announcing New Direction

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 15:54, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 11:49, Thomas Dodd wrote:
> > > My understanding is that you have the rights under the open source
> > > licenses to use, modify, and distribute (we cannot and do not want to
> > > remove these), but to get maintenance and support *from us* you have to
> > > subscribe per-system.
> > 
> > Exactly. and if you don't license per-system you loose maintance and 
> > support from Red Hat.
> 
> As I understand it, that's because the cost of the Red Hat service
> product is N dollars per system. If you don't pay the cost of the
> services, you don't receive the services.

Based on your other mails I just read, I think I'm explaining something
to you that you already understand.

In any case, maybe it will help others.

Havoc