[plug] RH7.x

Bret Busby bret at busby.net
Tue Aug 27 00:59:13 WST 2002


On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Tony Clark wrote:

> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 08:24:01 +0200
> From: Tony Clark <tclark at telia.com>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] RH7.x
> Resent-Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:24:26 +0800 (WST)
> Resent-From: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> 
> On Monday 26 August 2002 07.39, Bret Busby wrote:
> >
> > So far, 7.3 seems good to me. The main thing that I have found, that I
> > don't like, is the lack of availability of the RHN for the up2date
> > agent, unless a person pays for being able to update, which makes RH a
> > bit mercenary, when users have to pay for bug fixes. But, that goes to
> > my standards for software development, which appear to be different to
> > RH's standards for software development.
> 
> How dare RH charge for providing a service.  I agree with you!  It should all 
> be free from those thieving mungrels, they can go on and make all their 
> services free and file for chapter 11 protection when they run out of cash.  
> A much better senario for GNU/Linux don't you think?
> 
> OTOH you could always download the file and use rpm -uvh or choose one of the 
> many other _free_ tools that will handle dependencies for you. 
> 
> dum founded
> 

I remember you now.

You are the filthy scum who decided to criminally defame me on this 
list, back in February.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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