Grass-roots "Enterprise Linux" - was: Red Hat

[Bill Sconce]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 10:17:57 -0400 (EDT)
bscott at ntisys.com wrote:

>   [...]
> I'm thinking that might actually be the best bet for us.  Some of our
> customers are interested in paying RHS the big money for support, but most
> are not.  Their needs are small, and all involved (except maybe RHS) feel we
> can handle them without help from RHS.  If they run into a huge problem,
> they can also pay for support at that time.  All we want is a supported
> distribution.
> 
>   This is, to some extent, freeloading, and thus may not be sustainable, in
> the long-run.  With the "old" RHL, we were willing to "work with" RHS, but
> the new pricing structure simply isn't feasible for us.


I just came across an interview with Bruce Perens, in which he comments on
several of the topics we touched upon in this thread.