[ale] RedHat Exploring Desktop Edition

[James P. Kinney III]

I would expect that the subscription pricing has benefits that are
dramatically different from what M$ has to offer. Things like automatic
upgrades onto all subscribed machines. Plus I would expect that , given
RedHat's long standing commitment to the GPL (hey! Their installer is
gpl'ed and so are all their distributed tools), that the end of a
subscription merely means no more automatic updates. I can't imagine
they would be so stupid as to break functionality when a subscription
expires.

On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 10:24, Keith Hopkins wrote:
> Irv Mullins wrote:
> > On Saturday 31 August 2002 09:15 am, you wrote:
> > 
> >>RedHat is seeing that enterprises are more and more bothered by the new
> >>licensing terms for Windows and is exploring the idea of offering a version
> >>of Linux aimed purely at desktop users. The link is here:
> >>
> >>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26873.html
> > 
> > 
> > It also mentions that they're considering subscription-based pricing.
> > Is that a good idea?
> > 
> 
> I was thinking the same thing...isn't this why everyone is fleeing M$?
> 
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>    Keith
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