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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. Free Software will have support if demand exists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Progeny proves that with Free Software, even if the original vendor goes out of business, or stops supperting it, if there is demand for support, you won't be left out in the cold. This is a very geed thing.

  2. Does that include.. by kutuz_off · · Score: 5, Funny

    SCO's discount student rate of 642$ per Linux installation?

  3. Re:Frost Psist by grub · · Score: 5, Insightful


    Jobs has APPROPRIATED free software for his own personal enrichment

    Damn me for replying to trolls but..

    Apple has used BSD licensed code within the BSD license. Actually, the fact that they return code back to the open source community goes beyond the terms of the BSD license.

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    Trolling is a art,
  4. Re:Mind share is important espec. for education by bobaferret · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Yes, I do understand producing their "Red Hat Linux" product was expensive, and hurt their bottom line.

    um..no...It was profitable, ie it did not hurt their bottom line. It just wasn't growing fast enough. I belive this was stated in the interview here on slashdot. They maintain the idea that Growth is what is important, not profitability. A steady income won't make you rich, you need growth so your stock price will rise. I think the harm that they have done through confusing the community will far out weigh the money they weren't losing to the RHL division.