[ale] Current Red Hat users - moving on?

[Kevin Krumwiede]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 21:09:21 -0500
David Corbin <dcorbin at machturtle.com> wrote:

> They sold you a years worth of service, right?  If they're not going
> to deliver that, they should refund your money, or at least the
> balance.

I'm not sure.  I didn't bother to dig through all the "special offers"
they're sending me for RHEL.  One thing's certain: I won't be able to
renew it for less than twice what I planned to pay, and that's if I sign
on for two years.  I'm upset mostly because I'd just settled on RH.  I
don't want to keep reloading my OS and setting up my work environment
every few months.  I thought RH would be the most reliable option, and I
didn't mind supporting them financially for it.  But I'm not an
enterprise user, I'm just a geek who likes to tinker and hack out a
little code once in a while.  $60 a year is reasonable for security
updates and no support; $179 or whatever their minimum is now is NOT
reasonable.

I tried Fedora on my laptop, but got disgusted when it wanted to install
2GB of junk I didn't ask for.  Even if it weren't for the fact that
Debian is much less bloated than Fedora, RedHat deserves to be PUNISHED
for losing touch with my reality. :o)  They'll get no support or
recommendation from me ever again.

Krum