[oclug] RH copies M$ customer relations stratagy

[Dana Webber]

On Friday 14 November 2003 18:31, David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Brad Barnett wrote:
> > There is this, the fact that they didn't give a one or two year warning
> > about these actions and cancellation of updates.
>
> As far as I recall, Red Hat announced a long time ago that they'd be
> dropping support for RH8 and RH9.  They reiterated it recently, and
> for some reason, it got a lot more attention the second time around.
>
> That being said, I certainly don't want to pay for RHEL, and I certainly
> don't want to run a distro that doesn't guarantee errata for more than
> a couple of months.  It's time to take another look at Debian, I'm afraid,
> even though I've disliked it every time I've tried it in the past.

I did not get any polite reminders that my account was late so the threat to 
collect was a complete surprise. Then they tell me that the support for RH8 
ends this year. 

When i tried to upgrade 7.3 to 8, the libs got messed up so I had to install 
RH 8. So I'm hesitant to upgrade 8 to 9.

do you read the fine print on all your contracts?