[clug] Google compared to latest Microsoft evilness

[Lana Brindley]

2009/7/9 Chris Smart <mail at christophersmart.com>

> 2009/7/9  <wally at wic.net.au>:
> > I fear this is where the translation was lost.
> >
> > As I understand it so far :
> >
> > Microsoft charge you (based on your hardware) for software  ..then offer
> > free updates.
> >
> > RH offer free software then charge you (based on your hardware) for
> updates.
> >
>
> All the other stuff aside, my original argument was simply that Red
> Hat restricts how you can run their commercial RHEL software. I wasn't
> debating their support service or business model at all.
>
> And they do restrict you, because you a) need a subscription, and b)
> it has to match your hardware. And if you don't then you're in
> violation of their agreement and you can't get updates.
>
> That's all.
>
> Running CentOS is not running RHEL. Doing updates yourself is not running
> RHEL.
>

I'm sorry. What?

OK. So clearly, I'm not really running Fedora, either. Since I update that
myself.

I also run an MS box ... is that really MS, since I don't let MS push their
updates out to my machine?

And as for my RHEL boxes, well, I guess they're not RHEL either, because I
don't use RH support.

It does make me wonder how I get *any* work done!

L

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