[Techtalk] RHEL/SLES/SLOX

[Dan Richter]

> RH on the other hand stressed that you need to buy support for
>  each installation, whether you need it or not.

Yes, I've read about this. Red Hat is tired of cases where companies buy 
support for a tenth of their RH machines, but whenever they have a 
problem it happens to be on a machine that they bought support for. I 
understand that RH's support contract includes the possibility of 
Microsoft-style audits - though RH has never actually used that section 
of the contract so far. Red Hat does much charitable work but its 
employees still need to earn a living.

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  Marc Ewing had a reputation for being able to fix any computer
  problem at his college. He always wore a red baseball cap on campus,
  and so was known as "the guy in the red hat". Later, when he started
  his own open-source company, he wondered what to call it...