XP home is only liscensed for use with one cpu... got more cpu's on the box you need pro. also xp home is missing file-level access control and iis which pro has, so it's mostly just a toy... All of this is wildly silly of course and doesn't belong on the fedora list which is about fedora linux not windows xp, redhat personal workstation, redhat enterprise, or windows vs linux tco. There's a couple other places that might be more appropriate for people with issues. checkout other redhat lists: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo communicate your displeasure about the pricing structure with an account rep. buy a share and communicate you displeasure to the board about the direction the company is taking. This all presumes of course that you desire is to actaully change the direction of the company in a postive way, as opposed to just venting. joelja On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > 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 > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
