RHEL without License?

[Ugo Bellavance]

Rik Herrin wrote:
> Ugo,
>   I know that one of the RHEL clones might be better
> in this situation.  But I am asking because when I
> come to propose RHEL to clients, they sometimes ask
> what their situation would be legally if after a year
> or two, they wanted to keep their systems running but
> without paying support.  Would they be forced to shut
> down these systems (I think this is the case with
> Windows Server which is probably why they are asking
> since they don't want to be in the same trap)?  Or
> could they continue running them and just not get
> updates from RHN?  Thanks for your input.  

According to what I've seen, it is a matter of minutes to make a RHEL
server become a clone.  (This statement is based on the procedure to
make a clone another clone (ie Tao to CentOS).

Ugo

> 
> 
>>Rik Herrin wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks a lot for your reply Ian.  But it there any
>>>documentation or anything documenting that you can
> 
> do
> 
>>>so?  Also, in reference to the question of
> 
> downloading
> 
>>>the ISOs for free (30 day trial) and then
> 
> continuing
> 
>>>to use them after the 30 day trial period without
>>>paying, is this legal?  Thanks for your time.
>>
>>Aren't you better off using a clone like CentOS then
> 
> and give a few
> 
>>bucks here and there?
> 
> 
> 
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