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.