RH rips again Was: extend EOL for Red Hat Linux 9?

[Ben Steeves]

On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 11:49, Jeremy Hogan wrote:
> > 
> > Should I, as a (home) sysadmin, have read anything and everything I
> > could possibly get on the subject of RHL?  Perhaps... if I had 
> > nothing else to do with my time.  I can't even read every message
> > here.  Would it have been nice for RH to have included a note as
> > to their intentions in their regularly-published email updates that 
> > all "free" RHN users get?  Yeah, that would have been nice.  
> 
> We sent out more than one RHN notice, announced it on our web site, in
> free newsletters, had special promotions and talked about it in press
> releases. Journalists wrote articles alternately flaming our lack of
> vision or praising us for it. It's been the topic of Slashdot flames and
> mailing list threads alike. The word was as out as we could make it.

I got it so many times in so many ways I was sick of hearing about it. 
Anyone who didn't know when RHL-9 was going EOL and/or didn't know what
their options were must've been living under a rock.

I think it's also important to note that its not like these RHL-9
systems will suddenly explode on May 1st.  They'll still keep trucking
along... if security vulnerabilities are announced, the same people who
never heard of RHL-9's EOL or their upgrade paths will probably be so
oblivious they'll never hear about the vulnerabilities either... and
like they say, ignorance is bliss :-)

And I still have to wonder what any of this has to do with Fedora :-/

Ben
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