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

[Lee]

On Tuesday 01 October 2002 10:52 am, you wrote:
> 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.

Ahh, but I am. From the write ups I've read RH8 is supposed to be designed 
for the desktops of the business community, secretaries and such. Apparently, 
decided that server sales will follow a good desktop. Obviously, Ransome Love 
doesn't work there.

Lee