On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 13:52, Chris A Czerwinski wrote: > Hello fellow Red Hatters, Hi :) > On this sad day Red has finally announced by email - > About the upcoming discontinuation of Red Hat Linux. > Red Hat will discontinue maintenance and errata support > for Red Hat Linux as of April 30, 2004 and > does not plan to release another product in the Red Hat Linux line. This was a total surprise to me... yet, their email stated this : "As previously communicated, Red Hat will discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 as of December 31, 2003. Red Hat will discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 9 as of April 30, 2004. Red Hat does not plan to release another product in the Red Hat Linux line." Umm... I don't remember getting any previous communications that indicated this.. ??? > This is truly a very sad day. > Whoever has paid for their service recently will not get their money > back, only an incentive to upgrade to their Red Hat Enterprise Linux, > so there goes your money and that faithful support to Red Hat goes for > ... (and not for Linux). *ouch* .. I wasn't aware of that.. although, I don't use the RHN service, that does suck for those that do/did... > You cannot buy Red Hat Linux 9 from redhat.com yet you can buy from > retailers so they will bear the brunt of possible unsatisfied customers, > with no warning that the product will not be supported. *shrug* That's typical... > Now lets compare prices of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHLE) *SNIP* Ok.. Now here's my question. If I buy a copy of Redhat ES, how many machines can I install that on? Do I need to buy a copy for every machine? *SNIP* > It's a cruel, cruel world. Always has been, and will be for the foreseeable future.. *sigh* > I guess SCO is winning and Red Hat is doing an end run, this way their > involvement will be kept to a minimum or minimized. They have changed > their coat/code already. Strange that allegations of SCO's getting > indirect support from Microsoft and no one is mentioning where Red Hat > is getting their's. Could inference be made from IBM and ORACLE - and as > the saying goes "It's never good enough to win; all others must lose." > which infers us Linuxers are left unsupported and now we are proving to > be a liability to them. Hrm... I dunno... Maybe.. > Bowing my head low, as it cannot hold it's head high and profess that > the Red Hat will continue Linux support, seems that ENTERPRISE has won > (again) and we will pay the price as all marketers would like us to do. > Programming code and shared should drive prices down and not up, so > where and what's wrong with that logic? Where did the reasoning fail? Hey.. where's the money is, is the support... OSS is great.. I love it, and I support it... But in the end, it seems that enterprise always wins.. *sigh* > Chris -- --------------------------- Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold Engine / Technology Programmer friz godshell com RedHat Certified - RHCE # 807302349405893 MySQL Core Certified - ID# 205982910 --------------------------- "Something mysterious is formed, born in the silent void. Waiting alone and unmoving, it is at once still and yet in constant motion. It is the source of all programs. I do not know its name, so I will call it the Tao of Programming."
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