[98097] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Red Hat SCAM?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael S. Dunsavage)
Fri Nov 6 15:14:58 1998
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 15:10:54 -0500 (EST)
From: "Michael S. Dunsavage" <mikesd@ptd.net>
To: Josh Rotenberg <josh@parasite.com>
cc: TripKill <tripkill@1starnet.com>, redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <19981105204634.A7718@idiom.com>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
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I think you're more than completely out of line....
RedHat is not M$ where they make u buy their stuff for a fix or
driver.....u can d/l information, drivers, etc. from many sites. No one
is perfect and I'm sure RedHat is working on a way to rectify this error
(lack of better term)
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Michael S. Dunsavage
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On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Josh Rotenberg wrote:
> i think you need to chill. ive never done a hard-drive install, but ive done a
> bunch of ftp installs which, according to yer accusations, should also be
> impossible and guess what ... i never had a problem. sure, redhat wants you to
> buy their cd. linux may be free, but redhat needs to generate revenue to offer
> you the best linux solution they can, plus lots of value added stuff. but
> would they sabotage their own product and force you to pay for it?
>
> sounds like you've been running microsoft products for too long.
>
>
> josh
>
> Said TripKill <tripkill@1starnet.com> on Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 10:23:42PM -0600:
> > Alright...this may sound outrageous, and I'm not making a threat. To
> > tell the truth I'm probably doing this more out of frustration than reason.
> > After having serious trouble installing Red Hat 5.2 after downloading it,
> > I started to think that maybe there is a reason behind having to go through
> > all of this trouble. Most everyone I talk to say it is very hard to
> > install Red Hat from the hard-drive and just easier to buy the cd......see
> > what I'm getting at yet? I never had problems with Slackware. Well, I
> > might as well just come out and say it...You suppose that Red Hat does that
> > for a reason...I mean, the reason that I can't install Red Hat from the
> > hard-drive (according to many ppl in #LINUX) is that windows makes rpms
> > instead or RPMS and there is no way around it. So that means, I'll have to
> > break-down and buy the cd. I'm sure that Red Hat is aware of this
> > problem.......
> >
> > I'm a LINUX newbie, and if I'm completely out of line I would like to
> > hear about it.......
> >
> >
> > Thanks for listening,
> >
> > TripKill
> >
> > --------------------------------
> > End of redhat-digest Digest V98 Issue #1397
> > *******************************************
>
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