[rhn-users] RedHat Licensing stinks

[leam at reuel.net]

If you're qualified for the educational discount $50 becomes cheaper than the $60 you were paying for the older versions. You just have to determine if your need is worth that much money or of Fedora meets your need better.

You also need to compare "free" MS updates to the required anti-virus and other stuff you must keep updated on a MS machine. 

You are correct in saying Red Hat won't update your machine without a subscription. Is your need worth that subscription or are you just wanting to discuss the cost?

ciao!

leam


On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:29:22AM -0400, Philippe B. Laval wrote:
> RedHat won't do the updates unless you have a subscription which is the
> subject of my question.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com] On
> Behalf Of leam at reuel.net
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 10:09 AM
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> Subject: Re: [rhn-users] RedHat Licensing stinks
> 
> Yes, you have a few choices.
> 
> First, Fedora Core is free and updates rather rapidly. Second, if your
> systems are working then do you need to upgrade?
> 
> RHEL is "Enterprise" Linux. It is built with the "too many servers and too
> few staff" idea in mind; you let Red Hat do the updates and you focus on
> your business. It is probably not best suited for the 1-2 computer shop
> where the users are also the sysadmins with a habit of tinkering with
> things.  :)
> 
> ciao!
> 
> leam
> 
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:56:19AM -0400, Philippe B. Laval wrote:
> > I thought when RedHat went from 9.0 to the Enterprise stuff it was
> terrible
> > for small and mid-size users.  It is even worse.  Last year I bought a
> > machine with Linux installed on it.  My one year subscription for update
> has
> > run out.  After talking with people at RedHat, I am told I have to pay
> $179
> > for this year in order to get the very basic updates.  If I want more, I
> > have to spend almost $300.  With 7.x, 8.x and 9.x it used to cost $60 a
> > year.  Can anybody tell me if there is a cheaper way to keep my RedHat
> > system up to date?  If there is not, this unacceptable.  Even Microsoft
> does
> > not do such awful things (Windows updates are free).
> > 
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