Novell/progeny to take up redhat legacy services

[Chris Spencer]

But do people then need to download the source rpm and have to recompile
then patch.  If so do they need to include the spec file?

I think they don't have to.

In reality this isn't a big deal at all...but it will make it just
enough harder that $5/month doesn't sound so bad.

Hey, maybe people really should get off the 7.X series and give fedora a
shot.

I really appreciate progeny offering up the update service though. 
Seems like a smart move.

IMHO:  Redhat should have continued support for RHN customers only.  It
would have increased their bottom line while providing an important
service to their paying customers.

They could have done it better...but hindsight is always 20/20.

-Chris 

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 00:04, Warren Togami wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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