Re: Early Availability to Subscribers

Samuel Flory <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:00:08 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.limbo
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David Krider wrote:

> You know, I think RedHat could substantially increase it's revenues 
> from the RHN if they allowed subscribers to access new versions a week 
> early. The only reason I can think of that they don't already do this 
> is that someone would probably stick the thing on their T3-connected 
> site, just to show that they have the biggest... geekiness, or 
> something. But that aside, wouldn't it be cool? I've so far resisted 
> getting a RHN account (because I'm beyond broke with hardware 
> acquisitions and starting a new company), but that would definitely be 
> "the straw" to get me to sign up.
>
  I doubt they'd do that.  You could turn around and start selling 8.0 
cdrom before redhat was selling them.

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