Re: Plea for a reasonable RHASv3 license option

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:53:50AM +0100, Lance Davis wrote:
> And come post December 31st when after RH have dropped support for 7.2,7.3 
> and 8.0 there is a major remote security hole in a standard package, all 
> of this is suddenly going to seem a lot more real to a lot of people.

Red Hat has already dropped support for a lot of versions, and major
security holes have been discovered in standard packages.  If you chose
to stay multiple versions behind, you need to have a plan on how you are
going to deal with those security holes.  I have multiple systems at
work that are officially unsupported and it hasn't bit me yet.  Yes,
they will all be upgraded when I get around to them, but that's still
months away.

> You either pay redhat $$$ per year per system, or you will have to upgrade 
> all of your systems, with all the problems and changes 
> that involves.

That's true with every operating system ever released.  There's no such
thing as a free lunch.  

> That is why a new community distro is being developed, if you want to be 
> able to use the product you are you involved in totally freely for ever 
> then have a look at www.caosity.org - its still in its early 
> pre-release stages and is looking for people to get involved.

There are other distributions available that have the same goal (such as
debian).  You will not find a totally free distribution that makes
backported security fixes available for free for all versions in a
timely manner.  That is simply not realistic.

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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