[Beowulf] A press release
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Greg Lindahl lindahl at pbm.comFri Jul 4 14:08:15 PDT 2008
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 01:29:39AM -0400, Gregory Warnes wrote: > On fundimental difference in philospohy explains both the fundimental > differences between RPM and debian packages, and the reason for the lack of > emphasis of in-place upgrades of desktop distros: vendor income. It is not > in Red Hat¹s financial interest to make it easy to upgrade a system in-place > by an automated tool. They make money by selling new O/S versions. > Consequently, Red Hat explicitly designed the RPM format to discourage > in-place upgrades. Please take off your tin hat. Red Hat sells by subscription, so, it doesn't matter which version of RHEL you are running, just the count of servers. See: https://www.redhat.com/apps/store/server/ and note that there are no version numbers mentioned. -- greg
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