[ale] Red Hat 9.0

John Wells jb at sourceillustrated.com
Mon Mar 24 15:51:22 EST 2003


Additionally, that March 31 release date just seems suspicious.  I mean,
considering the next day...

John

John Wells said:
> Fulton Green said:
>> This is just one more way RH is "shaking down" us individual users for
>> subscription revenue.  As long as they don't violate the spirit of the
>> GPL (which is why I think they'll make individual packages available
>> on the 31st, when subscribers will have early ISO access), I don't
>> have a problem with it.
>
> Nor do I.  I certainly support Red Hat generating revenue.  And, as you
> note, it'll still be free on/after the 7th.
>
> What caught me off-guard is that they decided to leap from from 8.0 to
> 9.0.  That hasn't happened since I started using RH back at 5.2.
>
> Wonder if the changes were significant enough to warrant a major?  All
> indications I'd seen before today indicated the release as 8.1.
>
> John
>
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