On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Preston Crawford wrote:
From: Jason Malone
> Nope. You could always buy RedHat.
...
don't want to go RHEL route and spend hundreds of dollars every
years when I'm not an enterprise user.
....
As I see it, there is no clear path for a developer on a budget
other than to use Fedora. That's why I hope Fedora remains
relatively stable.
Cost of software as a ratio against hardware matters. I recently
assembled a 'worthy' machine for about $300. Red Hat Enterprise
Linux ES Basic Edition with Management Service costs $222.50/year
for 1 system which is a mismatch in my mind.
There are reals costs to RH and others so I know that they must
charge something. One real cost is bandwidth another is simply
the book keeping to cash a $20.00 check.
This brave new world demands some inventive solutions where cost
of software/hardware-cost results in a number that can stay at or
below 10%.
Now if I could only get the price of my ISP down!
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