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New Linux Support Policies are Ominous
Jon Lasser, 2003-02-12

Red Hat and Mandrake are cutting support for older versions of their Linux distributions... The results will be a security nightmare for the Internet.

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Two ends of the possible support policy 2003-02-15
PDL
I think Redhat has staked out the short end -- pay $800 per server per year, or EOL comes in 12 months (or less, for the installed base). The other end, of course, is indefinite support for one low payment (or none, if you download the distribution for free). Obviously, there's a problem for the v...

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