Good Evening,
For those interested in the school project, please plan to be at a planning
meeting on the 29th of June at my house in Valrico. There have been some
changes to the project, and the hardware install us underway.
The biggest change is that we are going to switch to SuSE 8.0 for this
project. Red Hat called me on Friday and used words like "Copyright" and
"Lawsuit" in the same sentence (not how I really want to start my weekend).
They want nothing to do with partnerships, and told me that if my company
sells a computer or server, and I put Red Hat (boxed version or downloaded)
on it, even if the customer SPECIFICALLY asks me to, and even if I don't
charge them a dime for it, I am breaking the law. They told me that they
know full well they will probably burn bridges in the Linux world, but they
don't care because they are taking a different business approach. What is
funny is that if I were to sell a full Microsoft solution, it would cost
several thousand dollars less than the Red Hat solution if what they
explained on our 45 minute call was accurate.
SO...SuSE will be the distro for this install and any other I work on. Even
when I buy the sets of CD's or a multi-system license, it's still cheap. I
am going to approach them on Monday to donate the software (but I don't think
they will).
Those interested in helping with the install...plan on a mid-July install.
All the hardware and network will be in place at that time.
Please contact me with questions.
Dave
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David R. Meyer
President
CRB Technologies, Inc.
813.651.4933 (ph)
813.389.4529 (mobile)
david@crbtechnologies.com
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