Chris Ricker said:
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> On 27 Aug 2003, Howard Owen wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 05:27, William Hooper wrote:
First off, please watch quoting. I most certainly didn't say the
following lines.
> >I think Red Hat should drop license fees for their WS
product. The
> >window of opportunity is open for Linux on the desktop, due to the
> >maturation of the technology, Microsoft's gouging on licenses, and the
> >lack of compelling new technology upon which they can piggyback new
>
> Sure and Red Hat can go belly up in 2 years because no-one is paying
> them for all the work they do.
I think people are saying they'd like a third option in between RHLP and
RHEL WS, something where the desktop is long-lived (say, three years
maintenance) but doesn't have bundled support.
It is my understanding that keeping multiple Errata trees for a long
period is the problem that making RHLP a short life cycle product is meant
to solve. I imagine that many more dollars go into backporting patches
than into answering phones.
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William Hooper