On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 07:51 -0500, James Drabb wrote: > First, let me state that I do despise MS, and I am playing devils > advocate. However, let us look at the cost over 5 years for RHPW and MS > Windows XP Home. We need to assume that RH will support RHPW for 5 > years and not drop support like RH 9. > > RHPW year 1: $50 > RHPW year 2: $60 for updates > RHPW year 3: $60 for updates > RHPW year 4: $60 for updates > RHPW year 5: $60 for updates > ---------------------------- > $290 over 5 years > > MS XP Home year 1: $99 > MS XP Home year 2: $0 > MS XP Home year 3: $0 > MS XP Home year 4: $0 > MS XP Home year 5: $0 > --------------------- > $99 over 5 years > > Do you see the price difference? Your math is wrong. Do the prices for MS XP Home + Equivalent Developer Tools + Adobe Photoshop + Decent Maths program + Complete Office suite + .... Just so you make a fair comparison. Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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