1. Redhat Inc. is a company living on the cash they make, i.e. without the profits Redhat probably will not survive. This is capitalism, which means (more or less): no money, no living.
We're living in a world where thousands of children are dying daily from hunger, all this in a situation, where we have the technical resources to feed every single human being on this planet -- these children simply do not have the money to pay for their life. If we agree with capitalism we should not wonder about the disgusting rules it is providing. 2. Free Linux does not mean the same as free bear: one has the right to make money with Linux IIRC. 3. I'm surely not one of the most strongest followers of Redhat -- there are things I do not like at all at this company. But we might want let the truth stay true: Redhat is now at version 7.2 - you can still download it for free: but according to http://www.linuxiso.org/suse.html you can't do the same with Suse Linux: "SuSE has chosen to not make freely available an installable i386/Intel version of their Linux distribution. They do, however, make an installable version available for the Sparc architecture, meaning Sun computers. The i386 version is a demo, uninstallable, evaluation Linux OS." And the differences go even further: To find patches, updates, and bugfixes for SuSE Linux you can have these only back til version 6.4 for Suse for i386: http://www.suse.com/us/support/download/updates/index.html and Suse's actual version at the moment seems 7.3 Redhat is providing errata back til version 4.0 (!) https://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/ And it even does not stop there: you can still have at least the Redhat *packages* for a probably complete system back til version 4.2: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ and the ISO's at least back til version 5.2: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/5.2/en/iso/i386/ all this, if I understand correctly, for free. Thank you, Redhat. Regards Wolfgang __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
