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SAJChurchey:
Recent developments in Red Hat's strategies are starting to scare me.  Pushing their Advanced Server line and discontinuing support on the latest (8.0) by the end of the year in order to force updates.  Has RH lost site of its Open Source orgins?  RH is next in line after Linux pushes M$ out, but at this rate, I'm wondering if that will be any better.

preacher:
The truth is that Red Hat makes most of its money on the server market. Companies spend millions to have rock solid linux servers. Red Hat has to keep focused on the server market to remain profitable. As for discontinuing support for old versions, you must realize that it costs a lot of money to support a lot of old versions, besides upgrading to the newest version is free, and even if Red Hat doesnt officially support its old versions, it doesnt mean that you have to stop using it, you can still update the packages yourself. The real problem is that there are too many new versions of unix based operating systems in a short period of time. Every 3 or 4 months a new version is out. Maybe we need to slow down.

slave:
How can forced updates be bad when they're free?  Besides, you can get support from someone else, red hat isn't the only option.

Calum:
do you mean free beer or free speech? forced upgrades are contrary to free as in speech, so i presume you see nothing wrong with forced upgrades at no monetary cost to the user? in that case why are you on the microsoft eradication society board? that is one of microsoft's favourite marketing ploys. it's the reason we all have to suffer the knock on effects of internet exploder for a start.

preacher:

quote:Originally posted by Calum: Member # 81:
do you mean free beer or free speech? forced upgrades are contrary to free as in speech, so i presume you see nothing wrong with forced upgrades at no monetary cost to the user? in that case why are you on the microsoft eradication society board? that is one of microsoft's favourite marketing ploys. it's the reason we all have to suffer the knock on effects of internet exploder for a start.
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First of all you are suggesting that red hat is forcing an upgrade. This just isnt possible with free open source software. Simply put users can continue to use old versions for an extremely long time as long as they update their kernel and glibc and et cetera. Now this is in no way like the microsoft tactic of writing programs that can not be used on Windows 95, not because it cant run them, but because they want you to upgrade to XP. Give Red Hat a break.

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