jdow wrote: > I note that over the lifetime of XP I'd have paid more for an RHEL > license than for an XP license. And - rest assured - you will *get* more out of that RHEL license than from the corresponding XP license. > Linux isn't free if you want support. That's the exact basis of Red Hat's business model. > If you want to sponge, which I am more honest about than most here, > then it does cost less. "Sponge" has a very bad connotation here. We're not "stealing" or "taking" the software. It's being *given* to us by the awesome folks at Red Hat and otherwise who hack on it and make it so great. I, for one, put in effort to repay that in various ways (Extras packaging, general support contributions, bug reports, seeding torrents of new releases, etc.) > [...] Since I email back and forth with the customer it's easier to > work from the OS on which I develop. Mozilla Thunderbird also works on Windows. ;) -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479
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