RE: [K12OSN] RedHat going away?

[Access Systems <accessys smart net>]

On 4 Nov 2003, Konstantin Riabitsev wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 10:37, Ehrhart, Jay wrote:
> > I was not happy to find out that Red Hat was going away.  I have 6 Red
> > Hat servers and I love them.  I have paid for every release of Red Hat
> > since version 6 all the way through to version 9.
> 
> And even with people paying for their over-the-counter distributions,
> they were still losing money on each sale.

sometimes you have to do that, how do you think M$ got where it is, they
practically gave away their OS on every machine,  then suck the money out
of em once hooked.  their called "loss leaders" to get folks in the store.

if I switch the company from individual desktops to servers, and RH isn't
supporting my desktops, who do you think I'll buy the big buck server OS
from?????

Bob


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