[clug] Google compared to latest Microsoft evilness

Chris Smart mail at christophersmart.com
Thu Jul 9 19:02:36 MDT 2009


2009/7/9 Paul Wayper <paulway at mabula.net>:
> And?
>
> Sorry, but I think somewhere along the line you got the idea that you can
> download a copy of RHEL, branding and all, for free and get updates to it
> for free.  That just isn't true.  So arguing that since that isn't the case
> you must be right is kind of circular.

I don't really want to kick start this dying thread again, but just to
re-iterate my point, _this_ thread has nothing to do with the evil
argument. It also has nothing to do with Red Hat's business model or
support contracts.

I was merely making a single, one line comment that Red Hat also
restricts how you run RHEL. Albeit in a different way to Microsoft,
but they do restrict you. See the rest of the thread for a most
confusing discussion on the topic :-)

And yes, somewhere along the line I did get the idea that I could
download a copy of RHEL, branding and all for free and get updates to
it for free. I got that idea because Lana said so at the start:

"Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a free operating system - there's no
restriction on what hardware you can run it on... So, I can download
and install RHEL on a machine with 16 CPUs and 64GB of RAM, and use it
to my heart's content."

Half of the thread was me trying to find out whether that's actually
true, which it's not.

-c


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