[Fwd: Red Hat Linux 8.0 now available on Red Hat Network]

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Lee wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Red Hat Linux 8.0 now available on Red Hat Network
> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 06:45:31 -0400
> From: Red Hat Network <rhn-admin at rhn.redhat.com>
> To: rathaus at gtcom.net
>
> Red Hat Linux 8.0 is now available.  Get priority access to the Red Hat
> Linux 8.0 upgrade by subscribing to Red Hat Network Basic service for
> just
> $60 USD annually.  Get it now:
>
> https://rhn.redhat.com/network/sales/purchase.pxt
>
> What does $60 a year get you?
>
> Snip
>
> Got this piece of bloat from RH today. It does raise a couple of
> questions though. 1) In what part of their anatomy does RH carry their
> brains around in and 2) does Bill Gates secretly own RH.
>
> Why would RH think that Open source people would pay them $60/yr to stay
> on their upgrade download list. Gates planned the same thing for XP and
> it blew up in his face. And his customers only had one choice either M$
> or M$. With RH trying the gates thing I guess there'll be a lot of spill
> over business to Mandrake and SuSE.

Because people working in a data center rarely have the time to be
fighting for space on anonymous ftp servers just to keep their systems up
to date.  If you've got 250 Redhat based servers, $60 is pocket change to
keep them all up to date in a timely fashion.  No one, is forcing you to
pay $60 to get RH-8.  You can certainly fighting for a place on all the
anon ftp servers that will almost certainly be full for the first week or
so.  Redhat is targetting the business world, they've made that quite
clear.  You are not their target audience.

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