Fwd: Re: [WBEL-devel] Re: How to get the RHEL Errata?

[Tony]

Personally, I interpret their new change in attitude will by default
make the 0$ level  ( i.e. non-payers ) not get any errata updates.. 

" no pay, no play"

This is an industry trend, and has been hinted at by other companies
as well..

The solution of course, is to create our own update repository, but I realize
this will take ongoing manpower and a formal support infrastructure, but 
its hard to do that on zero budget....


On Wednesday 26 November 2003 06:50 am, Vlad Mazek wrote:
> That is a very good point - packaging vs development. Remember, they didn't
> kill the Redhat Linux because they couldn't make money off of it but
> because they could not grow the business by selling people a $60 copy of
> Linux that would work for 5 years. At this point they had to choose between
> the nickel-and-dime business model or proprietary unix business model.
>
> I do not think you will see proprietary compilers, java installers or
> anything of the sort because that takes money to develop and in return
> brings in $0 revenue. What is more likely is that they try to create
> different support levels - $ for ftp, $$ for up2date, $$$ for RHN Managed,
> $$$$ for something else. In the worst case scenario, they could only allow
> registered Redhat Linux Enterprise customers access to the errata.
>
> -Vlad
>
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