Fedora vs RHEL

[Matthew J. Roth]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 09:29:02PM +0000, Bill Oliver wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> >My house has never caught fire yet, but I still have more than the
>> >minimal amount of homeowner's insurance required by law.
>> 
>> My house might catch fire, but I don't hire a fireman to come by
>> every evening and spray water on the roof just in case.
> 
> Ha!  Clever, but not as apt an analogy, I think, unless a subscription
> meant paying extra to have a consultant come on-site to verify your
> setup on a recurring basis. :-)

Paul,

To be fair to Bill, your original analogy equating a subscription to RHN to
homeowner's insurance is false.  He did the best he could with what you gave him
to work with.

Very few people would ever go without homeowner's insurance, yet many system
administrators run a community-supported distribution on their servers and are
quite capable of doing so with very little risk.

Regards,

Matthew Roth
InterMedia Marketing Solutions
Software Engineer and Systems Developer