Re: Plea for a reasonable RHASv3 license option

[shane stixrud org]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:

> 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

I agree with you to a degree.  In my case, my company owns 10 RedHat 
Enterprise service contracts, and 10 RHN enterprise accounts.  We pay a 
good deal of money for these.  What I would like to see is redhat allow 
people to use RedHat AS 3.0, not buy a support contract but only buy a 
redhat enterprise RHN account (i.e. they don't need support). This way 
those who require support for critical enterprise servers can pay for it, 
while those non critical development servers/test boxes can be kept up to 
date, while not having to pay unreasonable prices.

Clarification:  I am not sure that RedHat requires one to buy a support 
contract before they can get an RHN account, but if they do I feel that is 
unreasonable.  If I can legally take a RedHat AS 3.0 cd install it on a 
device and not pay RedHat a dime, why should I have to pay for support 
just to get a RHN account?

Shane.