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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>></B>Rick Moen [mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com]<BR></FONT><FONT size=2>>Quoting Tzeng, Nigel H. (Nigel.Tzeng@jhuapl.edu):<BR><BR>>> But they don't do it for $20K per copy like I was paying for Solaris with<BR>>> Silver support. Neither does Sun.<BR><BR>>This is irrelevant to the prior discussion. If you wish to start an<BR>>entirely new discussion about comparisons between companies, I certainly<BR>>won't stop you, but have no desire to participate.<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>I thought it was relevant because Donovan's claim is that because open source </FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>provides </FONT><FONT size=2>free solutions that you can't make money (except from nice people) on </FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>it where you disagree </FONT><FONT size=2>saying that </FONT><FONT size=2>you can because Red Hat does.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>My position was it's somewhere in the middle. That functionally identical solutions</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>to RHEL exist in the form of CentOS exists that caps the upper limit that Red Hat</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>and Novell can reasonably charge for an enterprise linux.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>This is more easily seen in the impact that Linux (a more or less functional equivalent</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>to Unix) had on Solaris pricing. >From $20,000/license to "free unless you want</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>Sun support".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>But hey, we've all said our piece so yeah, there's not much point in going on.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>Nigel</FONT>
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