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Why Microsoft will always be king
RudeCat7:
quote: I'm just saying know who you are working for.
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I work for the Penguin, and the benefits are great!
Free software, and all the web-browsing I can handle. The hands-on training program is great, it's really challenging! :D
I used to work for microsoft, but I had to pay them, and if anything went wrong, they usually said it was my fault! And as far as training, goes, they just said, "...click the pretty little icon, and it'll do something, you don't need to know why and how, o.k.?"
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[ October 19, 2002: Message edited by: RudeCat7 ]
lazygamer:
Suddenly what avid said about Redhat is starting to get to me.
-39.95 for personal edition, cool.
-149.95 for professional edition, it starts to get a little pricey, still acceptable but with a raised eybrow.
-799.00 for advanced server, outrageous!
-1499.00 for advanced server V2.1 standard edition, ghastly!
-2499.00 for advanced server V2.1 premium edition, that is hellish!
Something is seriously wrong here. An open source, free software, once small company charging 2499.00 for software? Can anyone here explain why Redhat should not have stones thrown at them for such traitorous practices?
voidmain:
Lazy, that price is for commercial support. You can get the software for free if you don't care about support.
flap:
And you're missing the point of Free Software. RedHat charging high prices for support or even for distributing their software is great if it keeps them in business, and it belies the myth that F.S. won't pay the bills. Regardless of what RedHat charges for their software/support, you're still free to change/distribute it at will once you have it.
lazygamer:
Yes, but you can't download their special 799.00+ editions off their site... unless im wrong. Of course it may be possible to just grab an .iso from a third party site. I dunno, something about 799.00 for support seems like quite a rip-off. Unless that's more of a very long term support thing, and there would be a market for that in the corps(they will pay for ease of use, and tons of support is ease of use).
At least Redhat is selling support and not proprietary secrets. I mean the way free software works, I could download a pirated .iso of their $2400 server thingy, then burn it, then sell if for $50... 100% legally! Although some of the hardcore Linux purists would give me evil eyes. :D
I just wonder why they don't provide free downloads for EVERYTHING(just with no support) to save people the trouble of finding a pirated version. My guess is that they intentionally give you an excellent but not as rich version for free, and hope you'll just pay them to save the hassle(if you want the really powerful stuff). I mean the downloadable Redhat is probably not the same(in terms of extras) as the $139.00 professional edition.
Question is, are pirated versions of something like the $2400 Redhat alot easier to find then something like a pirated version of wind0ze? Of course this is not an issue for me, the shit they offer from the mainsite of a Linux distro will always be plenty for me.
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