[ale] Fedora and RHN?

[Christopher Fowler]

Valid points

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 08:49, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Thursday 06 November 2003 09:39 pm, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > You misinterpreted the post.
> >
> > The post was in regards to the fact that XP Prof costs $189.  Someone
> > was whining that they could not pay $179 for RH.  My point was that XP
> > cost more and is crap compared to RH.
> 
> Of course, the $189 for XP should last for several years and the !79 for RH is 
> a yearly fee.
> 
> I will grant you that you get more with RH, but the Linux proce used to be 
> such an easy sell and Windows supporters were left looking for second order 
> costs. 
> 
> Linux Advocate: Linux is really cheap!
> 
> Windows Advocate: But windows has a lower TCO.
> 
> And then they argue.
> 
> Now that they are similarly priced it is more like
> 
> LA: Linux is really cheap.
> 
> WA: Actually, if you upgrade every three years RedHat is about three times as 
> expensive if you buy it with NO support.  Windows is way cheaper.
> 
> LA: Okay, the upfront outlay is higher, but look at all the stuff you get with 
> it.
> 
> WA:  La la la I can't hear you.  Windows is cheaper--you admitted it.  La la 
> la.
> 
> --Michael
> 
> > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 21:18, Geoffrey wrote:
> > > I can't recall who it was, but someone compared the RH price to windows
> > > XP.  Folks that's not even apples to frogs comparison.  What do you get
> > > with XP?  An OS (and a lousy one at that).  What do you get with RH?
> > > I've not looked at the package list, but I'm sitting here looking at my
> > > SuSE 9.0 Pro disk set.  5 cds folks.  I know that RH has a comparable
> > > application list as well.
> >
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