Re: Exportability of EDA industry from North America?

From: Rick Thompson (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:30:50 +0000

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:46:53 -0500, Chuck Harris
<cf-NO-SPAM-harris@erols.com> wrote:

>I want to go to Debian, but I am finding it hard to get excited about
>ripping my system apart and starting over...If only there was a safe
>and easy way to move from RedHat to Debian...

The EDA vendors only support RedHat, so I'm sticking with it, whatever
its faults. And, finally, after all these years, we now actually have
a professional Linux distribution, that's not just put together by
hackers. But I'll tell you what really pi**es me off about it - they
now charge an *annual* subscription for it. I've been buying Windoze
distributions for 20-odd years, and I've never once had to pay an
annual subscription. I bought my current Win2K 4 years ago, and I can
still download updates and security fixes for free. What exactly makes
RedHat think that they can charge year-on-year for that? If they'd
just asked me for a one-off $200 then I'd have paid it. I'm running
FC2 now, despite having to download the whole thing.

Rick

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