Novell/progeny to take up redhat legacy services

[Vincent]

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 12:32:54 -0600
Mike Vanecek <fedoraleg_form at mm-vanecek.cc> wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 08:44:38 -0800, Vincent wrote
> > http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/newss/5137/1/
> > 
> > Novell/progeny will be offering pay-for support on the RHL 7.2 and 
> > 7.3 line for $5 per machine, per month or $2,500 for unlimited 
> > machines. Instead of re-inventing the wheel It's my opinion that the 
> > contributers of this list concentrate on _only_ fedora-legacy and 
> > not the RH 8.0 and 9.0 line.
> 
> I believe you may find several, including myself, that disagrees with that
> position.
> 
> > The users in this category are 
> > generally faster moving then the 7.2-7.3 folks who don't want to 
> > touch their servers.
> 
> Not necessarily. I'd be happy to be on RH for the next 3 or 4 years.

I was aware it was a blanket statement that is why I put 'generally' in there.
My way of thinking is you cannot please everyone, but you could shoot for what
pleases the majority, and do it better. This would not be a concern if this
list had more contributers but it seems relitivly low on resources.

Also, maybe you could use RH for another 4 years but you should have known when
you bought/downloaded it, it surely would not be supported that long. That
would be 7 yrs or so. This is moot since someone has already taken up the 7.x
line. I would say the _desktop_ users out there refussing to update from 7.x
are few and far between, those with an army of servers now have a pay option
so why should fedora-legacy use resources on this is my point. If your company
cannot afford $120 a year for updates then distribute those from scripting
or an in-house up2date server, id say that business has bigger problems than updates.

> 
> > This would result an 'in between' user base 
> > which is apparently what the fedora-legacy project was created to 
> > accomplish. It would also benefit Redhat as to move them to the 
> > 'testing' line and not leave users in the RHL line which does the 
> > Company little good.
> 
> My concern is more oriented to my needs than those of Redhat.
> > I apologize if this has been discussed in depth, I'm new to the list 
> > and tried to read as much of the archives as I could before starting 
> > a thread.
> 
> Indeed, it has.
my apoligies
> 
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