[Yum] Survey of Use

[Garrick Staples]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:15:10PM -0400, Robert G. Brown alleged:
> On 23 Oct 2003, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > > $2500 USD for RH Proxy server (basically an up2date server, bleeccch)
> > > $25/installation of Workstation when in quantities over 100
> > > $150/installation of RHES
> > > $1500/installation of RHAS
> > 
> > eek $25/workstation? What about beowulf nodes - do they count as
> > workstations?
> > 
> > > Purchasing the proxy is a requirement to get the .edu (.ca up here) 
> > > pricing.  I asked about paying a large annual fee for the whole 
> > > university to get unlimited WS installs with a fee for ES/AS installs, 
> > > but they're standing FIRM.
> > 
> > bizarro.
> 
> Bizarro and Evil.  This is sheer madness.  It is also what I think many
> people have feared concerning Red Hat and the commercialization of
> Linux.  Linux takes the long slow road from "nothing" up to a world
> class operating system written by volunteers, and as soon as it is just
> barely "arriving" at a state where it might challenge Windows' dominance
> on the desktop they dream up these prices that are absurd even relative
> to Windows.  These prices make me very, very angry.

[...snip lots of well-said rant that I agree with...]

Our only solution is to take up Fedora and do two things:  continue
updates past 1 year, and build it for all arches.  That leaves one
question, when do we start?