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Red Hat News: Edu Prices, Progeny Support for 7.X

Posted by timothy on from the tip-of-the-fedora dept.

thx2001r writes "According to News.com, Matthew Szulik (perhaps driven by recent slashdot questions in this regard) of Red Hat has set educational pricing for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation ($25 per year for students) and (RHEL AS) server ($50 per year for the schools). Here are the details of the versions available at educational discounts." And for business users wary of Red Hat's high-priced Enterprise version (and happy using an older version), iroberts writes "Beginning January 1, 2004, Progeny will offer software updates for users of Red Hat(R) Linux(R) 7.2 and 7.3. Pricing is $5 per machine per month; or a flat rate of $2,500 per month for unlimited machines. The Fedora Legacy Project is discussing how this will impact their work."

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  1. Linux is way out of hand now with companies such.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Linux is way outta hand now with companies such as RH, etc. So much for it being free as in beer, it's now free as in money.

    Costs next to nothing to make, but costs your life to get it.

    Now it's at the point where a lot of these over commercialised Linux distro's will have to be pirated.

    It's unfortunate that the Linux people have been following M$'s footsteps for so long without realising it yet they bash MS because it's trendy to do in the Linux community - atleast for those without intelligence. If you bash MS, you should also bash RH for the same reasons.

    Even MS funds various researchers, RH takes what's free and makes it not as free.