Which one?

[Andrew Mathews]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Ted Ozolins wrote:
> 
>>boot up but finds it on the next boot) Redhat has become another M$ meaning
>>you can not just go to their site and upgrade packages. You have to register
>>on their site and create a profile with a list of installed packages (sound
>>familiar?) along with your name phone number address and then you'll get
>>bumped because the server is to busy to accommodate non-licensed users. Basic
>>printer setup sucks under RH 7.3.
> 
> 
> What??  I'm not at all sure what you're doing, but i have yet to have a
> single problem getting updates from ftp.redhat.com.  And i haven't
> registered or licensed a damn thing.  Even so, i dont' see how that makes
> them a M$.  They want to encourage people to buy their product, and
> register it.  How else would you suggest that they get any revenue?
> 
> 

My guess would be that Ted's referring to the up2date function which 
requires some registration info to do automated updates. I've had it 
reject me once with the message relating to the non licensed user issue, 
which makes total sense to me. If I spent the money to purchase the 
distro, I'd expect to have bandwidth priority too. However the 
registration issue is not a big deal. You can have one machine per 
username eligible. You can either create multiple user names if you have 
multiple machines, or select which machine is eligible, update it, 
change the machine eligibility, do the next, etc. To me it's a very 
small inconvenience compared to the benefits. Certainly one helluva lot 
better than Caldera's non-solution.

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