Re: Plea for a reasonable RHASv3 license option
Lance Davis <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Ed Wilts wrote: > 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 Yes but not on the timescales now adopted. And there are reasons why a lot of people havent upgraded servers to rh9 ... Hence why rhes is based (at the moment) on rh7.2 still . > > 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. That is no reason why it should always be so ... > > 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. Maybe not, but the current version will always be totally 'free' . Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user. -- Taroon-beta-list mailing list [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-beta-list