Re: Plea for a reasonable RHASv3 license option

[Stephen Smoogen <smoogen lanl gov>]

Can you give numbers on how many people that market segment is? Most of
the estimates of the ones I have seen (in my present vicinity) do not
seem very large when asked if they will pay anything over $49.00 per
box.

[Hoping this doesnt come across as combative.. taking the RHCE, with a 
sick toddler, and cleaning up email messes is taking more energy these 
days...]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Dax Kelson wrote:

>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?
>

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