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Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning
From: Eric Bowser <ebowser () i-trap net>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:25:55 -0500
<uninformed rant> The purpose of every business is to make money. I will never disagree with you there. Maybe this is the beginning of the revolution for Linux that happened for the Internet (ARPANET) so many years ago. Beginning to stop the free sharing of information, and beginning to see it as a viable business. More power to them. Fedora seems like it will be unstable/difficult to patch/*insert whatever here* in an intentional effort to extract money from users for the enterprise version. I don't debate the business sense behind their decisions, but they have made a viable OS available for years, gotten everybody addicted, and then replaced it with your choice of headaches, or a pay-to-play product. Don't drug dealers do that? </uninformed rant> Maybe I'm way off base here. I don't have but 2 servers out of almost 50 that run RedHat. And they're not even production. I try to remain independent of the distributor, and build from sources obtained directly from the author whenever possible. So take my opinions with a grain of salt. I've always been a Slackware or LFS guy myself. If they choose to stop supporting their distro, I can always continue to download and compile myself, that's how I do my updates now anyway. On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:35, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 14:30:41 EST, Eric Bowser said:Basically "Screw OpenSource, we want to make money."Well. Yeah. Take a look at their books: http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=RHAT&script=410&layout=-6&item_id=450143 Where is the income for supporting the free version? I don't see it anywhere. Do you see what their "total gain from operations" is for the last quarter? A whole whopping $240K.That's cutting it *damned* close. $30M in cash flow and only $240K profit, a whopping 0.8% margin. Did I mention it's their first quarter in the black? Feel free to suggest an alternate *business* model for them to follow, that guarantees they can keep paying everybody.
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- Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Kurt Seifried (Nov 03)
- Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning esm (Nov 03)
- Re: Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Jonathan A. Zdziarski (Nov 03)
- Re: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Cael Abal (Nov 04)
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- Re: Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Jonathan A. Zdziarski (Nov 04)
- Re: Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Steffen Kluge (Nov 04)
- Re: Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Jonathan A. Zdziarski (Nov 03)
- Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Joshua Levitsky (Nov 03)
- Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 03)
- Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Eric Bowser (Nov 04)
- Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 04)
- Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Jeremiah Cornelius (Nov 04)
- Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Ron DuFresne (Nov 04)
- Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 04)
- Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Jeremiah Cornelius (Nov 04)