From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (nat-pix.rdu.redhat.com [10.255.18.200]) by listman.rdu-colo.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h53KrW518650 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 16:53:32 -0400 Received: (from mail@localhost) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h53Ks3313042 for blinux-list@listman.rdu-colo.redhat.com; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 16:54:03 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id h53Ks2I13036 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 16:54:02 -0400 Received: from mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (mail-in-02.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.42]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id h53Ks2H12817 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 16:54:02 -0400 Received: from goldfish.ath.cx (dsl-213-023-018-167.arcor-ip.net [213.23.18.167]) by mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 624D1FED7 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 22:58:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 23124 invoked by uid 7780); 3 Jun 2003 20:51:37 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Jun 2003 20:51:37 -0000 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 22:51:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Hans Zoebelein X-X-Sender: hzo@goldfish.ath.cx To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Off topic (was: Our Free Operating $y$tem) In-Reply-To: <20030603172547.GA3040@wayne.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Loop: blinux-list@redhat.com Sender: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com X-BeenThere: blinux-list@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux for blind general discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Wrong mailing list. blinux list is kindly hosted by Redhat but has nothing to with them otherwise. Please read blinux FAQ at http://leb.net/blinux before posting to the list. Thank you --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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Blind support for Linux - http://www.leb.net/blinux/