Re: Plea for a reasonable RHASv3 license option

[Daniel Wittenberg <daniel-wittenberg starken com>]

While I agree with you, I think the point of the Enterprise Linux is to provide
higher support, reliability, etc.  In order to do that they have to generate $$
from it, and the only way to really do that is through services and support.  So
if you want the benefits of Enterprise, then you have to pay.  At least that's
my reasoning behind it.  I'm sure you'll see places on the net downloading the
src.rpm's and recompiling them..can't imagine someone isn't doing that already...

Dan


Quoting Dax Kelson <Dax GuruLabs com>:

> IMO, there is a rather large market segment that Red Hat is not
> addressing.
> 
> The long time "guru" Linux user in small and medium businesses that:
> 
> 1. Require no technical support from RH
> 2. Want to run "up2date-nox -u" for more than 1 year
> 3. Are turned off by the arbitrary 2CPU/4GB ram ES restrictions
> 4. Like administering a RH box and don't want to switch distros
> 
> Comments?
>