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[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On 9/12/06, Mike Fedyk <mfedyk at mikefedyk.com> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net [mailto:sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net] On Behalf
> Of Jeff Carlson
> I, for one, was never sure what the big deal over the end of RHL was.
> Basically, Fedora replaced it 100%.  I never called RH for tech support,
> even though the companies I have worked for have had that as an option,
> so the fact you can't call RH for help with Fedora is a no-op for me.  I
> never saw a reason for all the outcry.
>
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>
> Since I started with Debian in 1998 and didn't try anything else until FC2
> came out, I don't have any personal experience with RHL.  But I have read a
> lot of other personal accounts.
>
> The main point that I can agree with after sifting through all of the
> emotional rhetoric is that RHL was not end of lifed properly.  They pretty
> much said RHL9 will end in 3 months and you should buy RHEL and you don't
> get any discounts if you bought RHL9.  Then 4-6 months later Fedora was
> born.
>
> RH had the opportunity to smoothly transition people into RHEL, but
> completely missed the opportunity.

Funnily enough I am a fan of Fedora and Red Hat's company everything
GPL policy. But it was worse then that my company was a paid support
customer of RHL9 that ran 9 months after the end of life of RHL9. So
they offered me a free "upgrade" to RHEL support for the life of our
current contract. Then at the end of that contract it was full price
RHEL(like 800+ dollars per machine). So I was off to whitebox sense
basically all I wanted was automatic updates. Having never wanted to
actually call someone for support. They missed my companies money we
were willing to pay 100 a year/per machine for automatic updates, but
Red Hat aperantly did not want that money. So I get there work for
free from whitebox isn't GPL great. That is why I don't worry about
Red Hat becoming a Monopoly as long as they have a company everything
is GPL policy.

> PS, I apologize in advance for using outlook and the sh***y quoting it does.
>
> Mike
>
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