Novell/progeny to take up redhat legacy services

[Warren Togami]

On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 19:42, Pekka Savola wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Vincent wrote:
> > If your company
> > cannot afford $120 a year for updates then distribute those from scripting
> > or an in-house up2date server, id say that business has bigger problems than updates.
> 
> If you have e.g. 50 servers and 50 workstations, the bill jumps up to
> 12000$/yr.  Not an inconsiderable amount.  It'd be stupid to assume
> Progeny would not require some kind of agreement that disallows
> registering just one computer, and distributing the updates in-house.

But then the license on the individual packages may prevent that.  For
example if they are GPL or LGPL, you cannot put any restrictions on
re-distribution.  Also they cannot legally keep the source code
modifications of the security patches secret.

Warren