On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 18:29, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
> While I agree some of the decisions Red Hat has made have been
> necessary and even good (even if Red Hat has screwed up the
> implementation and public relations aspects of at least some of them)
> they are also apparently ignoring a lot of their existing and (at
> least until now) loyal customers.
This is crap.
> I certainly can't recall messages on any of the Red Hat mailing lists
> or any survey asking for Red Hat to price their Linux product at the
> same price levels Microsoft charges, yet that is exactly what Red Hat
> has done (and in at least 1 case when you extend the price over a 3 or
> 4 year lifetime of a product Red Hat is actually more expensive than
> Microsoft).
More crap.
> The base Red Hat product line (8.0, 9, whatever next) is no longer
> suitable for business or the average home user. You cannot expect a
> company or joe user to upgrade their operating system every year
> (which is now necessary given the 12 month limit on bug/security
> fixes).
Even more crap.
> To get a reasonable period of security fixes you have to move up to
> the enterprise line of products, which starts at a minimum of twice
> the price and has more restrictive licensing terms.
Ditto.
> So your average person at home now has a choice of Windows XP at $300
> or Red Hat Enterprise Workstation at $300 ($60 a year after the first
> year for access to security fixes). Guess what, XP comes with full
> multimedia capabilities including MP3 and DVD, as well as a full range
> of software available for purchase including games, tax software, etc.
> Which would you choose? And by the way, so far at least Microsoft
> still offers free security fixes in the base price.
This is a very long message that is the epitome of FUD. Let's leave
this $#|t out of the redhat lists.
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