Fedora vs RHEL

[Tethys]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Thomas Cameron
<thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> wrote:

>> The annoying thing is, I'd *gladly* pay Red Hat for support, if they'd
>> charge me a sensible amount
>
> [...]
>
> Horse feathers.
>
> You can get a personal, developer subscription for $99:
>
> https://www.redhat.com/apps/store/developers/rhel_developer_suite.html
>
> Alternatively, you can get a self-support subscription for commercial use
> for $349:

You appear to have not read my message. I want support. The developer
subscription explicitly states "No support is provided with this
product subscription". Not that I'd have been able to find it on the
web site in the first place, had you not pointed me at it. Equally,
the $349 suscription also comes without support. For me, those two
options provide precisely zero benefit over CentOS.

> RHEL does not start at thousands of dollars, that's just false.

You do appear to be correct on that. I'm sure that when I last looked,
it was going to cost me 4 figures to get support. But it does look
like I can do so for $799/year. My point still stands. That's more
than I, as an individual, and also most small businesses can justify.

Tet

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