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From: Hans Zoebelein <hzo@gmx.de>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Off topic (was: Our Free Operating $y$tem)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 22:51:36 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306032249360.4974-100000@goldfish.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030603172547.GA3040@wayne.edu>

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--Hans
(maintainer blinux-lists)

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Lee Maschmeyer wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I surely do hope I'm wrong in the conclusions I reached last weekend; if
> anyone can poke a hole in this please DO!
>
> I had been using Red Hat 8, enjoying updates on my demo account and
> feeling only slightly guilty in doing so. Since support for this system
> will expire at the end of December I decided to upgrade to version 9 so
> I'd get an additional year of updates. Bad move!
>
> In the first place, support for version 9 will expire at the end of
> April, 2004, so this move gained only four months of support. Much worse
> than that, though, I am no longer entitled to use my demo account. The
> demo account was for version 8 only and cannot be moved from version 8
> to 9. To be able to use the Update Agent (up2date) on version 9 I have
> to subscribe to the basic service which is $60 a year. If I'm not
> mistaken, I won't even be able to hand download new patches when I see
> them (if I'm permitted to see them) in the errata list.
>
> Admittedly I'm least sure of this last part, but even what precedes it
> is most disappointing.
>
> Can anybody restore tranquility to my jangled nerves? Please? And if I'm
> right in all this, have I inadvertently stumbled into a group of rich
> folks who thumb their noses at a mere sixty bucks a year?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Lee
>
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Our Free Operating $y$tem Lee Maschmeyer
 ` Hans Zoebelein [this message]
 ` Janina Sajka
 ` jude dashiell

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