On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, (Luke C Gavel) wrote:
> Yes, they have always done so, but mostly for free. eWEEK seems
> to be implying that Red Hat will start insisting that we pay for
> nearly everything up front.
OK, show of hands:
Who trusts Red Hat?
Who trusts ZDNet?
Red Hat has never shown themselves to be anything but firmly commited to
Free Software. I would trust no one to stick to Free Software more than
Red Hat with the exception of Debian. Other large Linux distributors
produce proprietary software for use on their Linux systems, but Red Hat
does not. Why would they change suddenly?
Also note that the end of the article to which you refer says that you
will be able to download Red Hat 7.0 for free.
> For example, by next week, we could
> all be kicked out of these list servers until we came back with
> our wallets and then they'd let us re-subscribe.
What sense would that make? These lists are users supporting users. None
of the experienced users would pay for access to the lists, so you'd have
a bunch of non-experienced users asking questions and no one to answer
them.
> If not, eWEEK
> should be spoken to for fraudulent, or at least dangerously
> inaccurate reporting.
What exactly, made you so worried? eWEEK said that Red Hat plans to sell
the service to as many customers as possible (I think they used the word
capture, but whatever...), but that's what a business does, right? They
sell their wares or services to whomever is looking to buy.
> that we *might* have to pay for access to their
> ftp://updates.redhat.com.
And their mirrors? Seriously. If the only updates available were via Red
Hat's official servers, they would be swamped.
> Folks, according to that article, this new policy comes into
> effect by next week. What I'd like to know is what the heck is
> going to be changed exactly?
I got a dollar that says nothing changes at all, just like every other
time someone gets worried that Red Hat is trying to seize power and
transmute into a great hulking M$. :)
MSG
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