Re: Exportability of EDA industry from North America?
From: Chuck Harris (cf-NO-SPAM-harris_at_erols.com)
Date: 01/18/05
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:55:47 -0500
Rick Thompson wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:46:53 -0500, Chuck Harris
> <cf-NO-SPAM-harris@erols.com> wrote:
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>>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
There is no reason that you have to pay RedHat. The amount you pay is
purely for their support. You can get the entire distribution from a
number of places. One is www.tux.com
-Chuck
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