Redhat subscription. was: Re: No more bendin over to uncle Bill for me!

[Richard L. Proctor]

On Tuesday 24 December 2002 2:47 am, foodog wrote:
> "Richard L. Proctor" wrote:
> ...<snip>
>
> > Well Redhat is also subscription base,  you get one free machine,  an=
d
> > anything after that your suppose to pay a yearly fee for.
>
> If you want max convenience you have to pay.  I've got 7 boxes that I
> keep updated for free with up2date.  I just have to login to RHN and
> shuffle the "basic entitlement" between boxes.  If they had a home user
> rate I'd buy it, I just don't have the resources to drop hundreds per
> year on OS updates.
>
> Steve

That will work for a while,  but Redhat will catch on and come out with=20
something similar to Win XP where a snapshot of your hardware, etc,  to b=
lock=20
that type of shuffling.  Especially at times like now where most linux=20
distro's are struggling to survive.

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Richard L. Proctor
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