The more I read the confuser I get.

[Erik Williamson]

  > Who says you can't use it after you quit paying for updates?  No 
one.  Red

RedHat does.  In my dealings with their sales reps, it is a "no-go" to 
keep using RHEL after your subscription runs out.

> Almost every argument I hear against the RHEL products is "well, I used to
> get this without having to pay".  That is part of the problem.  It is hard

I'd say that it's the fact that there's a certain degree of 
inflexibility coming from them.  People know that it's been a long, free 
lunch with Red Hat Linux for years.  What they're doing now is 100% 
right (with the switch) - but *.edu and small businesses are taking it 
up the rear.  My school can't afford the educational pricing - well - we 
could if it wasn't a yearly subscription.

So now, the company that I feel DESERVES whatever money we can give to 
them will get *none* as we switch to Fedora and Solaris x86.

e.

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e r i k   w i l l i a m s o n                     erik at cpsc.ucalgary.ca
  system admin . department of computer science . university of calgary