RH rips again Was: extend EOL for Red Hat Linux 9?

[Bill Kenney]

On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 10:49, Jeremy Hogan wrote:
> > 
> > Should I, as a (home) sysadmin, have read anything and everything I
> > could possibly get on the subject of RHL?  Perhaps... if I had 
> > nothing else to do with my time.  I can't even read every message
> > here.  Would it have been nice for RH to have included a note as
> > to their intentions in their regularly-published email updates that 
> > all "free" RHN users get?  Yeah, that would have been nice.  
> 
> We sent out more than one RHN notice, announced it on our web site, in
> free newsletters, had special promotions and talked about it in press
> releases. Journalists wrote articles alternately flaming our lack of
> vision or praising us for it. It's been the topic of Slashdot flames and
> mailing list threads alike. The word was as out as we could make it.
> 
> --jeremy
> 
Life is too short for this bickering. Can we please move on and quit
sucking up bandwidth?

If the few really need to beat this dead horse, make a private list in
your mail application and wail away.

TIA

Bill